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it works great!

John Clemence wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just been preparing my old Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop to give to my daughter. 
> I have formated and re-installed XP prof o/s, upgraded with service packs 2 & 3 and put on lots of other programmes. 
> I now realise that the existing hard drive might be a little small. I am consequentally wondering if I have to go through all this again if I put a larger hard drive in? Is there any way I could make a copy of the hard drive by putting it in a USB h / d dock and then replacing the existing drive with the copy?
> I would appreciate any thoughts on this.
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> John.
>
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