Cloning Laptop hard drive

[Poreo]

My laptop came today and so did the intel ssd I ordered with it. Everything was fine till I realized the cable ( which is supposed to help clone ) was a sata to sata cable and none of the laptops in my house have a sata. The only thing I have on this puppy is esata, hdmi and usbs. I also only have one hdd bay in this lappy. It is somehow possible to somehow clone using DVDs, which I seem to have an abundance of ?

PS. Please no "Go torrent win7" or anything like that

[Aprikot]

If physical connection is all you need, a usb/sata adapter would work and they're pretty cheap. I use Ghost for drive imaging, but sounds like you might already have an app solution for the cloning?

[Poreo]

Originally Posted by Aprikot If physical connection is all you need, a usb/sata adapter would work and they're pretty cheap. I use Ghost for drive imaging, but sounds like you might already have an app solution for the cloning?

Yea intel has a free cloning software but I have no idea how they expected me to use it. Most laptops have esata and they gave me a sata-sata cable. On top of that, my bro connected it to his laptop using a USB method but it didn't seem enough to power it

[brotherhobbes]

you could pick up a hard drive enclosure, which will turn your internal drive into an external usb drive.

just make sure you get one for a 2.5" drive and not a 3.5" one.