Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Adeptus

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Well Dell's sending me a new hard drive for my Studio 15 laptop. Of course, I'll need to backup all my stuff and then transfer it all.  However, to avoid this, I'm thinking of just copying the entire partition over to the new hard drive and then everything as usual from that one.

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That is tempting, but let's talk about why they are sending you a new hard drive.  I assume it is a warranty replacement because the old drive has developed bad areas and you have experienced some problems with it?

If so and the problems are persistent, you may be better off just putting in the effort of backing up the data and reinstalling the apps.  OS and application files that are already damaged will be still corrupt after you transfer them to another drive.  Sometimes it works out ok, but but be prepared it might not.

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Yeah warranty replacement - laptop randomly gets stuck. It's still new - 4 months old.

I get 10 days to switch hard drives and send it back, which is why I need it nice and speedy to get my computer "business as usual" again. Of course, if it doesn't work out, I'll revert to the 'tried and tested' manually doing it method.

But thanks for letting me know~