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    New Hdd for Aspire 8920g - transfer from old to new Hdd

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mrsingh, Mar 6, 2010.

  1. mrsingh

    mrsingh Notebook Guru

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    Ive got a an Acer Aspire 8920g and ive just bought a new Seagate momentus 500gb HDD for it.
    Is there a way to transfer my windows and all my files and programs etc to the new hdd without having to do a fresh install on the new hdd and installing all my programs etc one by one.
     
    mrsingh, Mar 6, 2010
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    sorry i should have added.... what is the best method to do this? which imaging software is reccomended (preferably free).

    thanks
     
    mrsingh, Mar 6, 2010
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    Acronis Migrate Easy is the one I used,it's a free trial version and I found it user friendly.
     
    ellalan, Mar 7, 2010
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    ive just downloaded that but it says i have to delete the partitions on my destination drive (old hdd) but the option before that says it will copy my partitions to the new hdd. Abit confusing. how did you get on with it?

    thanks
     
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    paten Notebook Consultant

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    The destination drive is the one you are copying to. So that would be the new drive.
     
    paten, Mar 7, 2010
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    paten - i thought the same but Acronis says the destination drive is the old one you want to copy from... :S
     
    mrsingh, Mar 7, 2010
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    I think it means any old partitions on the destination drive will be deleted. Since the destination drive is new, it doesn't matter.
     
    paten, Mar 7, 2010
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