Lindsay Smith: If you find yourself in need of a new hard drive for your laptop either because your existing one is failing or you need more space, transferring all your Program Files and settings to the new hard drive can be quite cumbersome. We’re going to look on an upgrade tip today made by Apricorn which essentially makes that process a whole lot simpler.
Mike Agerbo: Well, in the past if anyone asked me, “I want to upgrade my hard drive” I’d say, “Take it down with service center” but with kits like this, it’s making it a whole lot easier.
The nice thing is that it does everything for you. It helps clone all the software of your old hard drive and stick it on to the new one, so first step is that you do have to go it and get a new hard drive.
We’ve got a shiny new one here from Hatachi. This one is 200 gigabytes since it’s a SATA drive, there’s also the old PATA as well which is a form of IDE. This particular starter kits will actually work for both of them.
So, once you’ve installed the software you want to stick to drive in, so you can take the tray right out. Now, let’s make sure that you’re grounded. Make sure that you touch something metal before you’re dealing with all these electronic in digital parts.
Lindsay Smith: And you can have some nasty surprises.
Mike Agerbo: Yeah, you pry your really hard drive, so you just plug it right in there, and you can see it just clicks right in. and when once that’s done you just put it right into the drive and closure itself. And it’s a USB connection, so to transfer information very quickly plug in to the back here and then to the unit itself and the cloning software will then take all those programs in settings, and that’s the cool thing because if you had a goal and reinstall all of those programs like Windows and Office and everything, it takes all day this saves you a truck of load all the time.
Lindsay Smith: Yeah, and it’s just like —the other thing about when you’re changing all of your settings on there or trying to transfer them over you’ll repeat them, often I forget how many settings are done. I mean, you spent months building up your preferences, so to be able to just mirror them right over it literally it’s not to saving you the time of the day, but it saving you hours and hours to work down the road as you remembering oh yeah, I want to de-setup this player, de-setup that way.
Mike Agerbo: Exactly, so if you find yourself running out of hard drive’s storage space on your laptop or you start hearing those crazy noises.
Lindsay Smith: Yeah, they are some like little gremlins they are not good.
Mike Agerbo: And if you don’t want the gremlins sound like that it could a clicking or a clucking sound. It’s important that you do get all of that information off as quickly as possible. After testing out the Apricorn here, it is an actual easier way to get it done and you do save your self a truck of load all the time.
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