The_Contractor - 1:55 pm on Nov 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

The cost of a new HD for the laptop is crazy, especially when you buy a brand new laptop for not much more than the cost of a new drive.

I see many 160GB drives for laptops under $100 at Newegg along with 250 GB drives running under $175.

In addition, if I were to upgrade the drive, I'd have to get the o/s onto the new drive.

If you use a software product like DriveImage or something similar you can copy your existing drive/partitions to the new drive using this handy little adapter (hope I can post the link, as it's a handy little piece of hardware [newegg.com] that works with all drives - ATA, SATA, and laptop drives. I just used it for doing exactly what you are referring to.

I have no affiliation with NewEgg