I am making the full migration to Windows 7 after having been using it for 3 months with an XP install backing it up now. Essentially it was on my slower (and smaller) drive, and now that it is my full time OS, I want it on my faster (and larger) drive. What would be the best way (i.e software) to copy my entire Windows 7 drive to the newly formatted drive? OS and files and programs. Tired as hell so not wording things very well, I know, but I'm guessing you can infer what I mean. I want a program that can flawlessly copy this Windows 7 install + files onto my other drive.
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Clone Entire Drive
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Dangman
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Assuming that you're using the Seagate drives listed in your sig, Seagate offers a stripped down version of Acronis True Image that's more than suitable for cloning an entire drive onto another hard drive. The software is called Seagate Discwizard and is offered straight from the Seagate website.
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dd on a *nix livecd will do a block for block copy. Either Seagate's tool or WD's tool will also work. However, I'd suggest that if you're doing it from within windows, you use a different system and just plug both drives in as non system drives. Using a liveCD would be best, though, IMO. I don't know if it'll work the way you're hoping for it to, though, so let us know how it goes.