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Clone Laptop hard drive

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I have a Samsung laptop with dual booting to Windows 7 and Linux Mint on a small hard drive. I want to clone it over to a larger hard drive and I have been looking over what Acronis has to say about how to do it. It seems to me that I could take out the DVD drive and hook up the target hard drive there and that way I would not have to buy a USB case for it. I have had the DVD drive out already so that's easy enough to do. I have Acronis TrueImage Home 2011 to do this with on the Laptop.

Has anyone tried this before and are there any complications with doing this?

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You should try to hook up your existing disk to whatever port you have (using your DVD reader interface or USB), put your new disk at its final place, boot the computer on an Acronis recovery USB stick (I guess if you use the DVD reader connection, you won't be able to boot on a CD, will you?), verify that the CD can see both disks correctly, and do the clone that way. Since you clone to a differently sized disk, use the manual cloning method so that you can control how the partitions will be resized.