I have a laptop with a 60 gig hard drive. I'm running out of space. I bring it along on trips where I'll be editing a lot of photos, and store my photos on it, and well, yeah. It's filling up.

How would I go about putting in say, a 100 gig drive in its place? The only thing that occurs to me is buying an external drive enclosure along with the drive, hooking up the new drive as an external, copying the existing drive to the external, then swapping the new drive in to the laptop.

Is there some easier way to go about it that I'm missing over or is that my best chance?