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My understanding was that most hard drives come with some kind of program to allow you to transfer what's on the old to the new.
My understanding was that most hard drives come with some kind of program to allow you to transfer what's on the old to the new.
In no way am I as experienced as other folk here, but the ability to re-image to an entirely new and different hard drive is sometimes referred to as a 'bare metal' restore I think - extremely useful I suspect. I have not used Acronis but as pointed out, i think it offers this feature. Norton Ghost another possibility?
Hi Joan, It is an IDE 2,5" Internal Hard Drive...so i believe there's no such software on it.
(The Hdd to receive the image before re-image on IDE has a backup software but not to clone entirely) so it needs better.
manhunter2826, I was thinking of that but my cd of Norton Ghost is a 2003 version...And i'm not sure of it. well i could give it a try, but it could be an idea for others with a recent Norton Ghost..
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I have successfully used DriveImage XML to image my ex-current drive to a larger drive. I did the image direct with no intermediate steps with the new drive connected via eSATA. When I put the new drive in my machine, I only had to use the OS disk make it bootable and then everything worked just fine. I am using that disk now.
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