Do It Yourself: Upgrade A Notebook's Hard Drive

We've already looked at the impact on performance and battery runtime of replacing an outdated notebook hard drive with a more current offering. This time around, we want to show how easy it can be to upgrade and move your existing Windows installation from the old hard drive to the new one. All you'll need is a screwdriver and a spare external hard drive to help shuffle your Windows system's data to the new drive.