Llama8 8 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 The wife has ok'd some expenditure so I was thinking of getting this, since my C: drive is ####e (it's a 37 Gig PATA drive, probably a good ~10-15 years old & it has a "windows experience" of 3.9). What I would like to know is whether there's a free way of moving my current C: drive over to the new drive without having to re-install windows (& everything else). I've got Win7 Pro. Link to comment
Stormwing 40 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Well, Norton Ghost or some similar program can do the trick. I'll try reach a friend of mine who updated his C: from normal SATA-drive to brand new SSD. Link to comment
chattius 2,527 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 There are some freeware tools from professional software around to do 1:1 copes. Most have limited partition sizes. But you can use a freeware partition tool like gparted to work the patition after the copying. I would use the linux Clonezilla for the copying. It is a minimal linux to boot with from other medium and can do 1 to 1 copies. How to move step by step: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/how-do-I-clone-a-hard-drive-with-clonezilla/2254 But the more people you will ask the more programs will be said Link to comment
masteff 64 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I always use Seagate DiskWizard but then I've always had Seagate drives. This thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/cloning-windows-7-drive-to-a-newer-hard-drive-lose/0e3a6d99-9ec3-43bd-bead-c8b45d3b3aab recommends this software: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html Link to comment
czevak 57 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 We use Acronis True Image at work for our clonign and backup management. It might be a bit overkill if you just want to do this one time and it is not free. Link to comment
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