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    Moving windows to a larger HDD

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by battleship, Dec 25, 2011.

  1. battleship

    battleship Notebook Enthusiast

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    To start out I was recently given an HP dv9205us by my sister it needs a new Mother board which is being shipped now. I have a larger harddrive That I would like to Dual or triple boot Vista with one or two linux distros Or linux and FreeBSD or OS X and use the current HD as an extra storage space in the 2nd bay. Can I Move the windows partition to the larger drive internally to save some of the 3rd party programs she had installed or will I have to use a Fresh install? As a side note has anyone tried the copper shim cooling mod on a 9000 series hp and did it work?
     
    battleship, Dec 25, 2011
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    qhn Notebook User

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    Clone the drive to the larger one, quick and simple.

    Copper shim would work if you have enough gap, just don't over tighten it. I did this with my eMachines

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Dec 27, 2011
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