How do you install windows onto a new drive, but keep all your programs working?

Ah well, if you have a third drive big enough, then job done... once the image is finished, copy or move it to the third drive, shutdown the PC and remove the OLD boot drive (just to save accidental overwrtting), then power on and go into the BIOS, set the New HDD as primary, then save and exit, then boot from the Restore CD, once loaded you will easily find the Restore feature, and simply tell it were the Image is on the Third drive and what drive to restore it too and bob's your uncle :)
 
Brilliant. I'll just unplug the F1 and plug in the second F3, format it in windows installation, then restore onto it. Dont need to install my second sata cable.

I just have to hope that the C + D partitions were saved as seperate images.

I got 2 F3s, but only had 2 sata power cables installed to my mdular PSU so only installed 1 first.

It works, both partititions are being restored. C is done but D will take a couple of hours.

Also, when I installed the second drive, I noticed that the F3 hadnt gotten anywhere near as hot as the F1 had. Cooler, faster, and cheap :).
 
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Its all done :). I fell asleep while it was happening, but got woken up a few hours early by a dream reminding me that the PC was backing up, darn you psychic dreams waking me up :x.
 
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