Clonezilla is what I used for almost the same scenario. Except that I went to microcenter and picked up an esata/usb enclosure for like $6.99, put the new drive in it, connected to laptop, and used Clonezilla live to copy. Then I used gparted live to have the partition take up the whole drive, swapped the drives and rebooted from the new hard drive. -- Kathryn Hogg http://womensfooty.com