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Title: Newbie Help with cloning my new Harddrive...
Post by Luke on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 8:53am

I recently upgraded my PC last year, and moved from XP to Win 7 last week. I've been using the same hard drive for years as my operating system HD and have a sepperate much larger HD for my downloads, and files. {My operating system HD is still IDE :( }

Not only did Win 7 fill up over half of this pathetic HD, but I know the speed and recall of it is making my overall very up to date PC sluggish.

I just want to know, if I buy a new HD and install it as my 3rd HD on my machine, will one of these programs in this forum allow me to Clone the operating system HD to the new one, remove the old HD and make my 3rd HD my new operating system?

I assume that's what Cloning will do for me, but I've never had any experience with any of these programs and i'd like to make sure beforehand.

Thanks for any and all help given

Title: Re: Newbie Help with cloning my new Harddrive...
Post by Brian on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 1:53pm

@ Luke

How large is your old HD (the Win7 one)?
How many partitions are on the old HD (from Disk Management)?
Do you have a System Reserved Partition?
How large are the partitions and how much Free Space is in each?
Win7 cloning needs caution before proceding.

wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 8:53am:

I just want to know, if I buy a new HD and install it as my 3rd HD on my machine, will one of these programs in this forum allow me to Clone the operating system HD to the new one, remove the old HD and make my 3rd HD my new operating system?

Yes.
Do you plan to have 3 HDs in the computer?

Title: Re: Newbie Help with cloning my new Harddrive...
Post by Luke on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 2:33pm

Brian wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 1:53pm:

Yes.
Do you plan to have 3 HDs in the computer?

I didn't plan on keeping 3 HD's. I'll keep the big one I have, and was hoping I could just clone my Operating system HD to my new large SATA and junk the old slow one.

The old slow IDE is 150GB with no partitions and it's about 3/4 full.

Title: Re: Newbie Help with cloning my new Harddrive...
Post by Brian on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 2:46pm

@ Luke

OK. In Disk Management, can you confirm the C: drive is the System, Active partition.

Going from IDE to SATA can present a problem. Do this....

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=294

... and get back to us.

Download Image for DOS (30 day trial) and make a CD. We will use it later.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-dos.htm