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Hard Drive upgrade
I'm thinking of upgrading my hard drive from a 500 GB to a 2 TB. I have the Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate OEM edition.
I'm wanting to use this method of transfer:
- Installing XXCLONE on my computer
- Connecting the NEW drive to my computer via USB (Using a SATA to USB cable). Windows will read it as an external hard drive, for now
- Using XXCLONE, backing up my current C:\ drive partition in its entirety to my new SATA III drive (the one stated in the previous step)
- Physically uninstall my 500 GB Hard drive from my computer, and installing my new 2 TB hard drive
- Booting up my computer and then use Windows 7 Disk Management to extend the partition out to the full 2 TB
Will this work? Or is there another solution? I have not tried to see if XXCLONE would recognize an external hard drive or not, but my guess is that it would.
My second question is this, regarding my copy of Windows 7. Will I have any problems in terms of licensing after the process is complete? If so, then how would I remedy this?