New Hard Drive

[John Wendel]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I discovered I can buy a new IDE 160 GB Western Digital Hard Drive 
> for $83.00 plus shipping. I would like to replace this old 160 GB with a 
> new one. What method would you suggest for putting all the stuff on the 
> old hard drive on this new one? It seems that dd could do it but I 
> wonder how fast it would be?
> 
>    Any experience will be appreciated.
> 

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Seagate 250 GB  $69 + free shipping
Hitachi 250 GB  $59 + free shipping