I just read some comments on that laptop that there have been users who added a second hard drive and that there's an expansion bay. Thats cool then.
Yes, I'm kinda relying on the review from a guy named ESVK who was cool enough to take pictures of the open laptop and explain how he installed the internal hard drive.
Thank you for your excellent reply, BTW. I'll definitely follow your advice regarding the MS Office key. I'm not really looking to clone my HD specifically, but I'm just trying to find a way to migrate all my documents, music, and videos to the new laptop. This would be my n00b way to do it:
- Connect my 500 GB external HD to my old laptop's USB port
- Copy/paste my documents from my hard drive to the external device
- Copy/paste my documents from my external device to the new laptop
Based on my experience, this can take the whole day because the speed of the external Hard Drive interface with the USB port is very slow. There's always a risk that the copy/paste process will freeze and I'll have to start over. I'm sure there has to be more efficient way to migrate my files. Based on some videos I've watched, my plan is to:
- Open my old laptop and extract the Hard Drive
- Connect the old Hard Drive to my new laptop's USB 3.0 port using converter cables like these ones:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DQJME7Y/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A29Y8OP2GPR7PE- Use some software to migrate the files from old Hard Drive to new Hard Drive
Does this make any sense? My thesis is that the Old HD -> USB -> New HD interface will be faster than the Old HD ->USB ->external HD->USB-> New HD interface. Is this true? Is there a more efficient way to complete this simple, but time-consuming task?