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16-Jun-2008, 08:27 PM #1
Changing My System Drive
Hi,

I started off with a WD Raptor 10,000rpm 36gb HD which formed my system drive on my original setup which consisted of XP.

Which was all fine... but I've since moved to Vista and found that windows is taking up 13.5gb. Now I really don't want to be faced with having to re-install the program files on the larger 360gb drive due to it being time consuming and the fact that it isn't a 10,000rpm drive like they are sitting on currently.

What I'd like to do if possible is copy the entire system drive over to a new WD Raptor 10,000rpm drive with a higher capacity. Question is how? Is ghosting the way to do it and if so how do I do that or is that completely the wrong thing.

Welcome all ideas...

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16-Jun-2008, 10:52 PM #2
With Ghost or Acronis True Image, you simply use Add Disk or Clone disk and copy one to the other then unplug the original and boot to the new drive.
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