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    Transferring to a Larger Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by nickd916, Aug 10, 2008.

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    nickd916 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,
    I have a 100 GB HDD. I need more room so I am going to buy a larger internal HDD. I want to transfer everything to my new HDD. How do I do this? Is there some kind of plug that i can attach both HDD too to duplicate it?
    Thanks,
    Nick
     
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    get Acronis True Image Home, image the entire partition, take that partition and copy it to an external drive, then restore the image onto your new drive using the Acronis Boot disk.

    i disable windows system restore and use true image because it restores my system to whatever state it was within minutes.
     
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