New HDD?
I finally got myself a long awaited 500gb SATA drive. I've been making do with a 160gb and 80gb, both IDE. Problem I have is that my Windows 7 OS is on the 160gb HDD, and I want to move the partition to my new 500gb SATA and boot from that. I tried using EASEUS partition manager to copy the partition, then I unplugged my 160gb to see what would happen (obviously after shutdown!). Wouldn't boot from my new HDD.
I think you get the idea.
Is there any way to do this without reinstalling the OS? I have seen some talk about booting from the Windows DVD and doing a 'repair'. Not sure what this would achieve tho...
I think you get the idea.
Is there any way to do this without reinstalling the OS? I have seen some talk about booting from the Windows DVD and doing a 'repair'. Not sure what this would achieve tho...
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You ask for help, you get a solid recommendation, and then you shrug it off.
No I have never used Linux.
So to sum up I need to clone the drive with something like Paragon. Will that then make the drive bootable? I i need to reinstall my stuff because it wont be on drive C...
I had suggested Acronis simply because that is about all I've used for these scenarios, and have had zero issues with its use. I think I tried ghost once, but that was too long ago to remember. Let us know how clonezilla works.
From what i could figure cloezilla was a Linux application..
Anyway, thank you all for your suggestions, I managed to do the job with EASEUS partition manager, completely free, and instead of copying the partition i copied the disk. All up and running and there is a huge speed difference! Amazed i lasted so long with IDE...