I have an old toshiba portege 7020ct, 40gb hdd, running xp home. My hdd is going up the spout so I bought a new 2.5" 40gb hdd and a usb2 hdd enclosure. All I want to do is use xxclone to clone the new hdd so I can then install it in the laptop, because I haven't got a windows disk it just came pre-installed on the laptop. The trouble is that the laptop doesn't detect the new hdd. I have a usb2 pcmcia card plugged in as the laptop only has usb1. The card is working as I plugged a 250gb external hdd in and transferred all the stuff I want to keep. When I plug it into usb1 port it just comes up power surge in port, so it's detecting something. Hubby plugged the new hdd in the usb enclosure into our desktop pc and it detected it straight away and he formatted the new drive to ntfs. I then tried plugging into laptop and it still isn't detecting it. Any help greatly appreciated as my laptop keeps getting blue screen of death as my hdd is dying a slow death and it takes ages to get it running again.
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