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At 09:19 PM 6/5/97 -0700, Peter Lewis wrote: > >My 360meg HD is approaching full on the TP701C, on which I am running >Win95B. That OS was installed off a network by the previous owner. I can >access Win95B off another network again if need be. > >I'm looking for help/suggestions on my options to add HD, with price and >simplicity the prime objectives (I realize they may be in conflict). I >would also appreciate tips on where to purchase what. > >And to anyone who responds to this request for help, *please* keep the >technobabble to a minimum, because it will be meaningless to me. I'll try. :-) First, you worry about what drive you get. Basically, any standard 2.5" notebook drive should work in your machine. You *could* go as big as 3 GB I believe. I'm assuming you have access to a desktop machine--if not, get it. It is SO much easier to upgrade a drive for your notebook if you can use a desktop. Basically, go spend $25 on a software package called "Drive Copy" by PowerQuest corp. (I think you can see/order via www.powerquest.com--while you're there, check out Partition Magic). Take the drive out of your notebook machine, put it and your new drive into the desktop machine, boot with a floppy, stick in the Drive Copy disk, run it, BOOM--EVERYTHING is copied to the new drive, and its IDENTICAL to the old one (except it has more room!). Take your new drive and put it in your notebook machine. DONE! It's *really* that simple. There are a whole bunch of other ways to do it, but for my time, that $25 was *very* well spent and I guarantee I spent only 10 to 15 minutes actually copying data--actually, I watched a cartoon with my son while it copied data. All of the other options you are going to see will cost you a *lot* more time and be much more complicated. Why inflict that kind of pain on yourself when, for $25, you can avoid it entirely? ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle Assoc. Director of Electronic Commerce, Marshall School of Business at USC