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Macrium Reflect Image restore on new HDD
Hi.
I am replacing the 750GB HDD on my Asus laptop with a 1TB HDD. When I setup my laptop in 2011, I used Macrium Reflect to create (System?) images in three stages of setup...Windows 7 Pro w/ SP1, Windows 7 Pro w/ SP1, WIFI driver and Windows updates and lastly, Windows 7 Pro w/ SP1, updates and all Asus laptop drivers.
I have created a Primary partition of about 130GB on the new HDD and would like to install one of the three flavors of images I created in 2011 since the OS is already activated. The original HDD had a partition size of 210GB I think. The only thing different from the original setup and now is the new HDD.
Can I install the intended image on the new HDD without encountering any problems? Am I going about this correctly by pre-partitioning and formatting the new HDD (avoiding the 100MB recovery partition) before using Macrium and the Windows PE3 recovery media to install the image? I am trying to do this before the end of July so that I have the 2 Windows updates needed for SHA-2 support for continued updates thru the end of this year and have a somewhat clean install of Windows 7 on the new HDD. Thanks for any help in advance.
Mark