Copying everything to new drive

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  1. Posts : 7,538
    Windows 10 64bit/Windows 10 64bit/Windows 10 64bit
       #11

    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.
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    Windows XP - Now Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).
       #12

    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?
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  3. NoN
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    Windows 7 Professional SP1 - x64 [Non-UEFI Boot]
       #13

    Joan Archer said:
    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.
    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..
    Last edited by NoN; 16 Mar 2010 at 16:29.
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  4. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #14

    Hello NoN.



    From listening to others, Paragon is the premier SW suite for this.
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  5. NoN
    Posts : 4,166
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 - x64 [Non-UEFI Boot]
       #15

    Bare Foot Kid said:
    Hello NoN.



    From listening to others, Paragon is the premier SW suite for this.
    I was just reading technical stuff on Paragon Suite web site, looks quite powerfull enough...do the boot repair and other stuff.

    I'll think about that. Thanks.
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  6. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #16

    You're welcome NoN.
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  7. Posts : 63
    Windows 7 Professional
       #17

    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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