Moving to a larger HDD

Goldy · 29 Jul 2013 at 10:11

Hi,

Im quickly running out of free space on the 160Gb hard drive in my Dell laptop. What I want to do is install a new 500Gb hard drive and clone the existing HDD onto the new one.

Whats the best way of doing this? Does Windows 7 have any inbuilt features for doing this?

Thanks!

SpeckleD · 29 Jul 2013 at 10:30

This will do the trick, I have used it many times to clone windows disks in this way: http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/

Goldy · 29 Jul 2013 at 12:05

Thanks, that should do the job.

HecFam · 29 Jul 2013 at 12:07

That software worked well for me to actually. Rather good for expanding partitions.

Dervious · 29 Jul 2013 at 12:18

Their other app, Todo Backup does disk cloning and also copies/restores partition and disk images.

I find it a bit better and more reliable than Macrium Reflect, although both "have had their moments".

panyan · 29 Jul 2013 at 18:05

I use norton ghost for these sorts of jobs as it clones on a file-by-file basic rather than sector-by-sector so if you clone a 160gb drive to 500gb you can see the whole drive as oppose to just the first 160gb as with other tools

good to see an alternative though