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Yes, its true. I upgraded from the built in toshiba 250GB drive.
Cloned it to my Seagate EHD, removed drive, inserted new Seagate Momentus 500 GB, booted from cd, cloned back, then rebooted. It booted into my OS fine, with a found new hardware wizard, and it installed some kind of driver.
Strange whs...I'm about to do soon as cclloyd9785 to swap on another laptop a new drive...For that i'm using Paragon Software and the Usb 2.0 to Ide/Sata 2,5" converter plug & play.
I did a test before on another external drive, and Paragon asked to format the drive before any actions and couldn't go any futher, without partitioning the drive.
I didn't had enough space to do it when testing with Paragon and usb adapter...
So when i'll soon bought the new replacement HDD 2,5", it will be free of any files and i know it will work smooth during the process, as Paragon will recognize the drive when it will be connected to the laptop. I might only need to format the drive first before starting any actions in the Paragon Software.
I'll be able to do all that directly from the laptop (ghost then image it)...when finished i'll have just to swap Hdd inside the machine then boot and activate the copy of Windows.
It is not only creating a new folder...to image the new OS.
I have not yet used Paragon for that. I have used Migrate Easy 7.0 which is from Acronis. With it you can also directly clone to a USB attached drive. But this works only for Vista, not Win7. Else I have used Ghost Copy. There you need an interim external drive.