Changing laptop HDD, looking to move HD contents to the new one

VonTrial

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A friend of mine wants to upgrade his laptop HDD and doesn't want to bother with reinstalling the system and everything else; and him being an IT professional, he'd never think about asking elsewhere for help. :p

So, my question is - what would be the best way to go about cloning a laptop's HD contents to the new drive?
 

Ijack

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Buy an external hard disk dock (something like http://www.redferret.net/?p=9681) and then use any disk cloning software to clone the drive. (Paragon do free disk cloning software - there are several other free programs available.)