Move Windows 7

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  1. Posts : 21
    Windows 7
       #1

    Move Windows 7


    I installed Win 7 on a 20 GB partition of a 1 TB drive. (my mistake as I've run out of room)
    I've searched and have not found any programs that will move the partition.
    If I bought another drive, is there a program (preferably free) to image Windows 7 to a new partation?
    My version of Norton Ghost won't recognize SATA drives.
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  2. Posts : 1,161
    Windows 8.1 PRO
       #2

    Acronis.. But you're going to have to head to the torrents for that :)
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  3. Posts : 1,179
       #3

    I use Acronis Image v.12 and Acronis Disk Suite to do all that.
    1. install Image and make a complete FULLBackup. store on a clean partition.
    2. Make the Startup Disk with which you can boot to and restore you FULL Image.
    3. Install Acronis Disk Suite. and you can move increase the space or shrink the space as you see with.
    I first installed Win7 on a 16GB partition. Later i used Disk Suite to increase the partition size to 50GB. It did move transfer all data and I never lost any data.

    The image and boot disk is simply incase you mess up and lose data.

    versions I use:
    Acronis True Image Home 2009 12.0.0.9796
    Acronis CoreDiskDirectorSuite.10.2160
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  4. trv
    Posts : 5
    Vista, Server08, Win7, XP
       #4

    Can't you use windows backup, its built in. Though you will need a drive the same or larger in capacity to do a restore.

    All so you can increase your partition size in disk management if you have spare unallocated adjacent space.
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  5. Posts : 1,179
       #5

    Acronis does make very small full image backups... imho much easier, faster and smaller than Win7 backup.
    currently my C:\win7 partition is almost 20g. Full backup via Acronis is 8.1GB
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  6. Posts : 21
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    trv said:
    Can't you use windows backup, its built in. Though you will need a drive the same or larger in capacity to do a restore.

    All so you can increase your partition size in disk management if you have spare unallocated adjacent space.
    Disk Management will not allow me to resize the "C:" drive.

    I can shrink the "D:" drive, and have say 50 GB of unallotcated space. Then try to extend the "C:" drive and it refuses.
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  7. Posts : 49
    Win7 x64 7232 // XP x86 SP3
       #7

    Have a look at GParted. It's free. Burn the LiveCD iso to a disc, boot from it and work with your partitions.

    GPARTED DOCUMENTATION - COPYING
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  8. DJG
    Posts : 1,008
    Windows 7 RTM x64
       #8

    You can also check out Paragon Software's Partition Manager and Drive Backup apps.

    PARAGON Software Group - partition manager, drive backup, hard disk partitioning
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  9. Posts : 1
    windows 7
       #9

    Well, if you know how to clone XP, you can clone Win7. This assumes you are running XP or some other OS while you copy the Win7 partition. Most copy programs can't copy a Win7 partition because of the hard links. XP's backup program (ntbackup) can do it. You make a backup and then restore it to the new partition. The OS doing the restore must know the new partition by the same drive letter as the OS doing the backup knew the original partition, or it won't work because the hard links won't be restored.

    As always, you still need to tinker with the registry hive before running the clone. I use the "saving partitions" program to do the tinkering. This is not for beginners.
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  10. Posts : 9,582
    Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
       #10

    CTerrian said:
    Disk Management will not allow me to resize the "C:" drive.

    I can shrink the "D:" drive, and have say 50 GB of unallotcated space. Then try to extend the "C:" drive and it refuses.
    Can you post an image showing your drive layout in Disk Management? The following is from my system, just to give you an idea of the information required.
    Move Windows 7-capture.png
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