Help. Replacing Laptop Hard Drive

[JunkBox]

I'm getting a bigger hard drive for christmas and i'm unsure how I'm going to go about cloning my current hard drive and putting it onto the new one.

First question; what program do I use to clone my Win 7 OS to the new Bigger hard drive?

Second question; when cloning the hardrive do I copy the hard drive to a portable hardrive then fit the new hard drive and restore? (using software from a bootable CD)

Third and final question; By cloning my laptop hard drive and putting it onto the new bigger hard drive and using on the same laptop, will single license copy of windows 7 become invalid as it's on two hard drives?

 

[dave1812]

5 Free Apps to Clone Your Hard Drive

 

[JunkBox]

5 Free Apps to Clone Your Hard Drive

Wasn't a full looking answer that I was looking for but thanks for the link to hard drive cloning software.

 

[dave1812]

5 Free Apps to Clone Your Hard Drive

Wasn't a full looking answer that I was looking for but thanks for the link to hard drive cloning software.

How about this? IF the only hardware u change is the harddrive, you should no have trouble with the validation. Obviously, you can't take put the old HDD into another PC and expect it to be validated...

 

[aem]

First question; what program do I use to clone my Win 7 OS to the new Bigger hard drive?

Second question; when cloning the hardrive do I copy the hard drive to a portable hardrive then fit the new hard drive and restore? (using software from a bootable CD)

Third and final question; By cloning my laptop hard drive and putting it onto the new bigger hard drive and using on the same laptop, will single license copy of windows 7 become invalid as it's on two hard drives?

First answer: Norton Ghost 11.

Second question: Would help if you dump the ghost image onto an extern USB HDD first.

Third question: Nothing talking to MS can't fix...well almost nothing.

 

[BruhthaKuga]

Windows 7 Ultimate Clones Hard Drives

I don't know if the other versions of Windows 7 also clone hard drives but Ultimate does, I've used it, here's the directions to it:

• Start
• Control Panel
• Back Up And Restore
• Create a System Image

I am now going to try something new, I am going to do a clean install on two drives, every time I decide that I like new software that I have installed on the hard drive that I have in my PC and am using I will swap the drive and install it on the other hard drive and swap the drives again.

If I am having difficult software problems or the OS installation degradation level is where a clean install is warranted with the drive that I am using then I will install the other drive as a secondary drive and copy it like we do when upgrading a drive then remove it.

I don't use the other drive except for to install new software, drivers, and to copy from.

 

[whs]

First question; what program do I use to clone my Win 7 OS to the new Bigger hard drive?

Second question; when cloning the hardrive do I copy the hard drive to a portable hardrive then fit the new hard drive and restore? (using software from a bootable CD)

Third and final question; By cloning my laptop hard drive and putting it onto the new bigger hard drive and using on the same laptop, will single license copy of windows 7 become invalid as it's on two hard drives?

First answer: Norton Ghost 11.

Second question: Would help if you dump the ghost image onto an extern USB HDD first.

Third question: Nothing talking to MS can't fix...well almost nothing.

If you use Norton Ghost, you have to use the COPY function, not the image function. That will make a true clone.