Hard drive upgrade and Vista [Archive]

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Dragonprince

07-12-08, 05:14 PM

I want to replace my 74 gig Raptor hard drive with a larger WD2500KS drive and I am running Vista 64. Are there any free programs that will let me directly copy my Vista install to the new larger drive ? I would like to avoid having to reinstall Vista if I can. Thanks.

tuskenraider

07-13-08, 03:27 AM

WD's Data Lifeguard (http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=606&sid=1&lang=en) tools is free and will do a disk copy.

Dragonprince

07-14-08, 04:16 PM

Wont install under Vista.....

Trap05

07-14-08, 04:22 PM

Use the CD version its bootable and vista becomes a non issue

chop_wood

07-14-08, 05:57 PM

but then wheres the rappy gonna go?!?!

Dragonprince

07-14-08, 06:35 PM

Use the CD version its bootable and vista becomes a non issue

Tried it...no joy:shrug: gives some EIDE CDROM driver error and drops to the A:/ prompt...nothing will run off the CD...

Dragonprince

07-18-08, 04:28 PM

bump

Dragonprince

07-22-08, 06:49 PM

Resolved.

Acronis Easy Migrate worked like a champ....but Vista did need to be re-activated...no big deal.