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Using Drive Image to restore to a NEW harddisk?

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nick128

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it's just what the subject says. I have a system right now that is almost as perfect as i can get it, and i want to make an image of it anyway, but i'm going to be installing a new drive soon (larger) and i want to put the image from this drive onto the new one so i have that install of perfection on the new disk. Is DriveImage 2002 enough to do this or do i need to use liek Clone or Ghost, etc.?
 
It's pretty easy to do, but Image and Restore is not the best way. If your version of Ghost has a clone function - use it. The best is Acronis' TrueImage 8 - it has a really good clone function. It creates you a bootable CD - then connect both drives, boot with the CD, and use CLONE. It will clone your old drive to the new larger one is a proportional way - even to include partitions you may have. Then afterwards, disconnect the old drive - make the new one the Master and boot away. You are in business. in less than 30 minutes (more like 15!)
 
It's much easier to just use the utility software offered by the maker of your HD.

I've used both Maxtor and Western Digital utilities to clone to a new drive. Both worked flawlessly.

Hope this helps!
 
Drive Image 2002 is what I use. It is perfect for the job.

Either way you create the image, you have to do a few things to make life easy when time comes to replicate it on the new drive.

Install the new drive and disconnect the old drive from the PC. Go to the BIOS and put the new drive in the boot priority list ahead of everything else.

Restore the image onto the new drive. If you make the image from the first partition of the old drive, make sure that you restore the image onto the new drive at the beginning of it so that it ends up being the first partition. Otherwise, your boot.ini will not be valid and you may not be able to boot.

After you restore the image, reboot and you will be fine.
You can then, connect the old drive and use it as storage. But, you will not be able to boot to the old drive unless you switch the boot priority again.
 
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