I use BounceBack to copy/clone and archive. I got it with a hard drive replacement and enclosure years back for my XP SP3 Laptop. It has worked quickly and flawless for both transferring the contents of my original HD, and for making a stand-alone copy complete with drivers. David Thompson From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard Drives (similar but not identical question) I have a "netbook" (small laptop) on which both the built-in ethernet controller and built-in wireless controller have failed. I don't recall what happened to the original hard drive; the one that's installed now is 750GB and has been serving as an archival volume, so I'd like to connect it to a network... The hard drive is set up to dual boot between Windows 7 Home Premium and Ubuntu Linux. Because there weren't Linux drivers for the Ethernet controller chip, I've often used a USB-to-Ethernet adapter on this machine, and that still works for Linux but somewhere along the way, Win7 has forgotten how to use that dongle. And for some reason the drivers for a USB-to-Wifi adapter don't seem to load properly... I've found where an online merchant has off-lease Compaq laptops for about $120, including a 120GB hard drive with Win7. So my plan is to put the 750GB drive in a USB enclosure, copy the drivers from the Compaq to it, pull the 120B drive and install the 750, and re-match the drivers with their devices, which I'm hoping will leave me with the 750GB drive usable in a new laptop slightly bigger and more powerful than the old netbook. Am I overlooking anything major? David Gillett PCSOFT's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]> PCSOFT's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]>