Laptop hard drive replacement

[Morat20]

I'm replacing my wife's rather smallish laptop hard drive with a much larger one. Her loadout is new enough, and she has enough stuff installed, that'd I'd really prefer to avoid the fun of "Backing up all the data, plugging in the new drive, reinstalling everything from the OS up, then trying to move all the data back over".

I've seen kits that are, basically, USB enclosures for a 2.5 hard drive and cloning software. Anyone have any experience with these? Can you recommend a good one?

All I'm looking to do is clone the current drive onto the new one, so I can just swap the new one in once it's done.

[Engels]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817155602

This comes with EZ-Gig II, otherwise known as Acronis True Image. We use it at work. Works flawlessly 90% of the time. Some exceptions include not detecting a particular raid controller on a motherboard, but its detected all the standard ICH7-10 versions we have here, including the ones on laptops.

[Ironwood]

Acronis is the Shit.

Not only awesome, but the support you get from the makers is similarly awesome.