Hard drive clone help!

Hello Guys,
Im new to this forum.

Im deciding to make an upgrade to the hard drive on my notebook. Its a 250gb hitachi.
I have a 500gb WD and i need to know if there's a way to clone everything from my old hard drive, (including the os)
Which steps should i follow and which kinds of software would you recommend?

I have a 64 bit based computer and obviously w7.

I will appreciate your help!

Since you have a WD drive check this link.

WD Support

Jim

charli3 said:

Hello Guys,
Im new to this forum.

Im deciding to make an upgrade to the hard drive on my notebook. Its a 250gb hitachi.
I have a 500gb WD and i need to know if there's a way to clone everything from my old hard drive, (including the os)
Which steps should i follow and which kinds of software would you recommend?

I have a 64 bit based computer and obviously w7.

I will appreciate your help!

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As PhoneMan suggested, WD support can help you as they have a clone program which will probably represent the easiest solution for you, if not,
then following approach works-i've done it:

START | type System Repair | Enter key | Create Disk button
CREATE A SYSTEM IMAGE BACKUP
· START | type Backup your computer | Enter key
· In left-hand pane, select Create a System Image
· select where you want to save the backup | Next
· Select the drives you want to backup | Next
· Start Backup button
· Finish button after completion


RESTORE A SYSTEM IMAGE BACKUP
· Boot from the System Repair CD you created.
· Connect the external drive with the backup image
· NEXT button (change language if desired)
· Restore your computer using a system image
that you created earlier radio button
· NEXT button
· Use the latest available system image radio button
· NEXT button
· Format and repartition disks checkbox
· NEXT button
· FINISH button
· YES button
Yes, you can use the Create & Restore steps listed above when you want to replace your hard disk with one of same or larger size.

I do appreciate your help guys, I will follow the steps carefully and share my experience.

Thanks a bunch!

Charlie

Charlie,

May all go well and we appreciate any and all feedback.

Just Re-imaged my hard drive....now im using the new one and it runs perfectly!

Everything is the same as the previous one, all my files, programs, settings...etc

Thanks guys, i owe you a beer!

Cheers!

Glad it worked out. What method did you use?
If you ever get to New Orleans I know some great places to get that beer.

Jim

Sure!
Both methods were good, but i used the second one. Anyways i have the WD utility for future uses...

charli3 said:

Just Re-imaged my hard drive....now im using the new one and it runs perfectly!

Everything is the same as the previous one, all my files, programs, settings...etc

Thanks guys, i owe you a beer!

Cheers!

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Make mine Augustiner (the best beer in Muenchen - Munich).

Glad to hear all is up and running.

Ok Karl & Jim ...
I'm new to Windows 7 and this forum. I can understand that you can make the System Image backup but how do you get that Image onto the 500GB Drive? I'm not that familiar with a Notebook...I thought they only have one HDD.
Certaiinly the notebooks doesn't have the memory to hold the image and I didn't think you could put a SI on a Cd or can you? Old Guy wants to know more.