Update the hard drive of my T61

Hi, guys,
I want to upgrade the hard drive of my T61. My current one is only 80GB.  Is there any one has good experience? I plan to buy Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Blue SATAII 5400RPM 2.5IN 8MB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD3200BEVT  or the 7200RPM version. Are these two both working well? After upgrade the hard drive, how can I immigrate my current system to that new hard drive? Thanks in advance for any suggestion!

Either hard drive will work fine in your T61. To transfer your operating system, you can use the trail version of an Acronis boot disk to clone your old hard drive onto the new one. Or if you haven't already, you can burn the factory recovery disks and use them on your new hard drive.
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