would it be wrong

to use an empeg to clone my sister's old laptop drive to her new one?

I guess that depends on whether her new large disk ever makes it out of the empeg, or whether you accidentally clone onto your empeg's smaller drive instead..

Sometimes I can be a total and complete retard. I gotta admit I dont hang out here on the forums as much as I should, and I am probably way way behind on a lot of the discussions..

I am running beta 2-13 and the latest hijack so dont flame me just yet. But after reading this thread a lightbulb flickered on in my head.. someone correct me if I am wrong.

Would it not be possible to use the clone utility, copy all of the data with the operating system and everything, and make a mirror image to another laptop drive? The point being that if/when my current drive fails (and it will, its a mechanical device) all I would need to do would be swap the drives and I am back in business. Right? I cant afford to buy another player as a backup at this time, but drives are much more within my price range, and are probably going to be the piece that fails first anyway..

My only catch is my MKII is one of the early ones, with two 6 gig drives. Will the clone util copy data from both drives to, lets say, one 20 gig laptop drive?

Ahh.. I just read just about everything I need to know here..

You guys probably hate it when we ask first before reading..

I have 2 six gig drives installed from the factory. I know that I will soon be running out of room and want to upgrade to a single drive of higher capacity. The article I have linked in the above post is very informative.. but I want to ask anyways since someone out there may have already gone through the motions. Is there anything not mentioned in the link I need to be concerned with before I start, or does anyone have any advice?

I am very familiar with IDE drives and have set Masters and Slaves many times, have some Unix and Hyperterminal exerience.. I think I even have all the right tools for the job. Anything I need to know before I pop the top?

nope...the upgrade guide is pretty comprehensive. The stuff that might seem a little fuzzy now, you'll get as you do it.