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ok, when you get the new drive, register it to get the cloning software. you can clone to a larger drive no problem and vice-versa depending upon how large the installation is and how small the new drive actually is.
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In that case, I would image not clone.
I am virtually positive that the WD/Acronis app mentioned by the previous poster will work for you----as I recall, the destination drive must be WD, but the source drive can be anything--such as Hitachi.
Imaging usually works, but be prepared for it to fail badly.
I'd make my new partitions as desired on the new drive before attempting any imaging. Since you have only 1 partition on the current drive, you would make an image of the Hitachi, save that image to a partition on the WD, and then restore that image to your chosen OS partition on the WD.
Other free apps that can image:
Macrium Reflect Free
Paragon Backup and Recovery Free
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sorry, not trying to confuse terms. i must say that i've never used the acronis app and i have used macrium with one success and one failure. the success was moving to a larger drive in a laptop running windows xp and the failure was trying to move to a larger drive in a desktop running vista.
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Macrium has always worked perfectly for me , so has Paragon .
The WD Acronis app. you mention can be downloaded by anybody - no need to register. But you must have at least one WD drive to use it.
Seagate DiskWizard is the same app. - again , anyone can download , but it will only work if you have at least one Seagate/Maxtor drive.
They seem to work ok.
You don't get clone function in the free Macrium and Paragon apps. - you can make an image with them as suggested , and restore it to the drive you wish to use.
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