Upgrading PC internal hard drive and migrating Windows

top_dog · 2012-12-04 23:20:41

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…

04-12-2012 11:20PM

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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 05-12-2012 10:58AM

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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?

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#3 05-12-2012 05:47PM

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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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