Complete copy of hard drive

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ste20man

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Hi all.

I am currently using a 250Gb hard drive that is almost ful due to me recording large amounts of audio and other music related products(VST's and effects etc).

I need to buy a new 1Tb hard drive and copy all of the 250gb hard drive right across, Win 7 included. Everything even virus' if they are there and I need for it to just run straight away as though nothing has changed except for the extra 750Gb of memory if you can see what I mean. I don't want to have to go re-install of of my stuff.

I have a 1Tb drive that I am using as backup at the moment, a slave drive but it has a lot of valuable data on it so I don't want to wipe it, I would prefer to buy a new 1Tb and go from there. Can this be done? Are there any tutorials that show you how to copy a whole hard drive over like this??

thanks for your time, Ste. :)
 
Drive manufacturers provide programs on their support websites to clone the old drive to the new drive.
 
If this is true it is going to be really incredible. My Win7 is legit but I was just expecting major problems. I'll always listen to other ideas as well. Thanks so much voyagerfan99. I'm going to check it out now. :-)
 
HDClone can do it. I have used this program to upgrade hard drives on four or five different laptops.

The free product works good, but there's a bottleneck; I found the Basic edition well worth the $25 US.
 
Hi again.

I have used Acronis to clone my drive and I have switched them over so my new drive is now the master. The drive now shows up cloned as local disk c but I have a problem.

There are now 2 other drives listed. One is:

System reserved(D) - 61.6 of 99.9Mb used

and

Local disk E - this is my old drive now as a slave.

Can you tell me what the system reserved is and how to get rid of it?

Cheers for your time, Ste.
 
I know Windows 7 creates a small partition named "system reserved" and can't be touched. Not sure if Vista does the same thing or not. I wouldn't worry about it as 100 mb isn't very big.
 
Vista does it too, containing boot information etc. The only way ive hidden it is to remove the letter attribuation.
 
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