Can we settle this once and for all? Migrating to new hard disk.

VeNT

VeNT

VeNT

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I've seen lots of views and lots of options
most people say that acronis true image _CAN_ do this but you have to pick the right options etc.
But I want to know for sure.

I want to take everything (EVERYTHING) from my current 250GB C:\ and put it all on my new 1TB F3.
I then want to take my old 250GB and set it as G: or something.

I want the new drive to be the 1st boot enabled disk and just work.

any ideas?
 
iirc gold doesn't make good CDs.
anyway, has anyone got a GUIDE to doing this. I want somthing that we could put in the sticcy.
 
ok it's now copied all the stuff onto my new disk and I've set that as the first boot drive but it's still booting from the C:\ old disk.
 
I'll have a go again tonight, do another copy, and take all the others out and run the install again
I'm on vista 64bit btw
 
ok this is what worked for me
use the boot CD to copy the drive to the new one (pick the right drive).
after that, disconnect all other drives apart from new one and run vistas install CD repair thingy.
boot windows and check you're all ok.
shut down, reconnect other drives
boot into BIOS and set the new drive as #1 to boot.
reboot into windows and check everythings ok.
 
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