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What utility can move my Windows boot partition over to another hard drive?

What I have:

  • 1 Laptop w/ vista and failing hard-drive. (only 1 drive bay)
  • 1 Brand new replacement hard-drive
  • 1 external usb hard-drive w/ empty space greater than the capacity of failing drive.

How can I clone the contents of the old hard-drive to the new one?

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Curtis Cook
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You can use CloneZilla to do a 1:1 clone of your hard drive. You would have to leave the source drive plugged in, and then attach a second drive (either your external drive with a dedicated partition, or your new drive if you have the proper cables). Run the utility (which is a LiveCD), and you'll be good to go.

CloneZilla does work with Disk-to-Image: CloneZilla Disk-to-Image screenshot

If you do use the external hard drive, you will have to actually run CloneZilla twice. The first would be to clone the hard drive to the external drive, and the second would be to then clone that partition that's on the external onto the new hard drive.

Kruug
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Symantec Sytem Recovery will do this easily. It even restores to different hardware. System Recovery Desktop Edition has an eval version. I have used this many times for systems with complex software installs. This has saved me many hours over the past few years.

Dave M
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