Hard Disk Drive

dcruizer · 02 Jun 2011

Hello good day to all,
I need your suggestions or guide how to copy image completely from my old HDD with Windows Vista Home Premium. I want to replace my existing HDD drive with another brand with bigger capacity and then I will upgrade it to Windows 7, my problem is how to copy the original HDD drive image into a new one. Please any help with clear steps to go through would be highly appreciated.

biggles1000 · 02 Jun 2011

You could try the Microsoft backup tool, but it didn't seem to be the carbon copy I quite wanted. You could also try 'clonezilla', a free disc imaging tool.

Britton30 · 02 Jun 2011

there is a good tutorial from out member Kari here
Written for tranferring Win7, but should do what you want.
It may be better to just do a full clean install of Windows7, then transfer your data from the Vista hard drive.

strollin · 02 Jun 2011

You would be better off doing a data backup of your old drive then doing a clean install of Win 7 to your new drive, reinstalling your apps then restoring your data. It's more work but less trouble prone.
<Oops!> I see Britton30 beat me to this suggestion.