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Upgrading PC internal hard drive and migrating Windows

  • 05-12-2012 12:20AM
    #1
    top_dog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭


    Hi, I want to upgrade the internal hard drive in my PC. Currently my PC is running on only 1 disk which is quite slow. It is running MS Vista. My plan is to install 2 new hard drives to replace the single one.

    Is there a way to somehow clone the existing harddrive and then transfer onto the new drives so that I do not have to re-install windows OS?
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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,095 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

    You'll want another machine to host the two drives while you transfer.

    How do you know the disk is slow, have you bench'd it?


  • #3
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    You won't need another machine. You could just replace one drive. Clone to that then put the other in.

    I don't know what software is good but there is probably freeware that can do the same job as the acronis. Have a search around google.


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