Cloning my HDD to a new HDD question

mc6701 · 18 May 2009 at 23:08

Hi All,

Hoping someone can help..........

I currently have a 160gb hard drive in a budget htpc that i have built. I have now bought a 1tb drive and my question is........ if with some cloning software i clone the old 160gb disk to the new 1tb drive will that just run my system or is it not as simple as that??

Don't really want to do a fresh install if i don't have too.

Currently running XP Pro

Thanks

Dano · 18 May 2009 at 23:11

Yup, clone it across and all you need do is make sure it's set to boot off the correct drive in BIOS.

mc6701 · 18 May 2009 at 23:18

Thanks for the quick response.........

Will the size difference cause an issue ie. i will have a 160gb partition on my 1tb drive or will it just copy it on to the HDD.

Again thanks

Dano · 18 May 2009 at 23:33

Depends on the software, I use this: http://www.partition-tool.com/ which allows you to resize the partition as you copy it over.