DC>  CS> I am trying to figure out how can I transfer information from one HDD
 DC>  CS> that's in my laptop, to another HDD, that I plan on replacing the
 DC>  CS> current one in my laptop with.
 DC> There is drive duplicators, which I also use to mount ad-hoc drives and
 DC> such. The price vary between 40$ and 100$. You plug both drives
 DC> vertically and you can either mount them or copy the source to the
 DC> target within a computer. There is duplicators from various interface
 DC> types too.

Was going to reply with pretty much the same answer as DC. One option you
could consider is a drive caddy that turns the bare HDD into an external
drive with USB connector then you can use something like 'dd' to mirror the
internal drive to external.

Once the copy is done you can swap the drives around, and use your old
internal as portable storage.

RenMas

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