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hpawlowski
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - June 22 2011 : 16:49:59
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Have a validated image of my current C drive on a second drive. I would like to replace that C drive with a larger drive, restore the full image to that new, larger drive and identify that new drive as C. What problems might I expect? Risks?
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Merlin
Advanced Member
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Posted - June 22 2011 : 22:16:14
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Shut down and replace your "old" C: drive with the new, larger one.
Boot with the boot disk.
Choose the image file as the source, and the new drive as the target.
Tell it to use the full disk(enlarge the partition) to restore to.
Reboot without the boot disk.
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Edited by - Merlin on June 22 2011 22:17:31 |
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alan9182
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - June 22 2011 : 22:53:00
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quote:
Originally posted by Merlin
Tell it to use the full disk(enlarge the partition) to restore to.
Is that safer or even necessary ?
When I was using Acronis many years ago my Christmas present was a 160 GB HDD to replace the original 30 GB on my Laptop.
I was happy to restore the same size C:\ and use the remain 130 GB unallocated space for MUCH FASTER access to new partitions holding what previously was only on a relatively slow USB2 external HDD.
Regards
Alan
O/S: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate *64 SP1
Graphics: HIS ATI Radeon HD 4670 1GB GDDR3
Motherboard: ASUS M3A32-MVP DELUXE AMD 790FX
Processor: AMD Phemom 9500 Quad Core 2206 Mhz
Hard Drive: Samsung HD103SJ, 931GB, MBR, 32MB Cache
Hard Drive: WD Caviar Black, 640GB, GPT, 32MB Cache
RAM: Corsair XMS 6400 4GB (2X2GB) 800mhz
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hpawlowski
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - June 23 2011 : 18:21:45
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Merlin, thanks. It went exactly as you suggested and I am up and running with the bigger drive and, as far as I can tell, no issues.
My congrats to the folks that put this program together. It is SUCH a pleasure to have software do what it claims and you expect. Suggest you add somewhere this use, "upgrading" the primary drive/disk. That functionality is certainly implied from the functioning and features descriptions, but I could find nowhere in the documentation that specific use. It definitely will be used for future backups.
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Merlin
Advanced Member
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Posted - June 23 2011 : 21:15:43
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| Hal, happy to help. :) |
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