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TangledThorns

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Probably an easy question but want to verify this can be done. My old HDD is dying so I'm replacing it with a new one. Have to reload install the OS and all that jazz onto the new HDD. I also bought an enclosure for my old drive, will I be able to access the old drive's data to load onto the new HDD easily?
 
I would sure try to use Acronis and image the full drive onto the new drive. There is an option to make it bootable. Then you take out the old one, set the new one in the BIOS as the boot up drive and boom. Your nice new drive will look like the old one...It will have all of the data..
 
That is great idea. I'm going from a 500Gb to a 1Tb system, will that still work?

I'm using a Vista 64 OS.
 
Any drive imaging software like Acronis or clonezilla(which is free) will be sufficient for what you want to do.

And yes, you'll be fine going from a 500GB to 1TB system with Vista64.
 
Cool, this will make my day easier now. I see on Western Digital that Acronis can be downloaded for free so I'll use that. If it gives my problems I'll use Clonezilla. Thank you!!
 
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