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  1. Posts : 112
    windows 7 Ultimate 32bit & 64bit
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       #11

    Sorry for the miss understanding, but yes, take the external with the image, and install it as the internal, but i guess ill just have to get another HD.

    Petey7 said:
    When you say you want to use the external as your new hard drive, I hope you mean you plan to take it out of the enclosure and use it as an internal drive, because it won't work otherwise. I believe what you want is something more like HDClone: Miray Software - HDClone - Hard disk copy, hard disk backup, hard disk rescue!

    Keep in mind, the new HDD must be the same size or lager than the old one.
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  2.    #12

    that would probably work.. good luck
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  3. Posts : 112
    windows 7 Ultimate 32bit & 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #13

    Hey, Im trying to backup the image on this external hard drive, its telling me i have to format it first? i have a lot of important stuff on it. I cant format it!

    So if i go out and get a 1.5 TB drive, can i partition it, dump the image on one side of the patition, then install windows on the other side of the partition?

    thanks.

    madtownidiot said:
    that would probably work.. good luck
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  4. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #14

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you want to do, so before doing anything else, run all by me one more time. I don't want you doing the wrong thing.
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  5. Posts : 112
    windows 7 Ultimate 32bit & 64bit
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       #15

    Ok I got a hard drive that's barely functioning, and need to image it. So can I go out and get a 1.5 tb drive, install it internally, partition it, put the backup image on one side of the new HD and then load the recovery cd to install the image on the other side? Or do I need to get two HD?
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  6. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #16

    Hastyle,

    Yes, you can do that. Be sure that you format the new 1.5 tb drive using the NTFS files system. I would recommend that you save the image to the second partition.
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  7. Posts : 2,963
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit
       #17

    If you plan to, which seems like you do, make an image to the external, but a new internal, and restore the image to the new internal, you can do it with almost any imaging software.
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  8. Posts : 112
    windows 7 Ultimate 32bit & 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #18

    I tried making an image to the external drive i currently have, but it keeps telling me i need to format my external first, but i got a lot of important data on it, so thats not an options, thats why i ask if i can partition the new hard drive im gonna get.

    thanks guys.

    Petey7 said:
    If you plan to, which seems like you do, make an image to the external, but a new internal, and restore the image to the new internal, you can do it with almost any imaging software.
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  9. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #19

    You're welcome. Please let us know how it went.
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  10.    #20

    yes, format it to ntfs
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