system migration to new HDD

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hey,
i have an amd system with a 80 gig hdd, with Visat on it....
i'm thinking of buying a new 320 or 500 gig hdd because i'm running low on space.
thing is, i wan't to migrate the whole system to the new hdd without having to install everything anew.

so my questions are the following:

1) is it possible to move/copy my whole system to the new hdd?
2) if it is, which programs to use?

thanks,

and happy holidays !!
 
u can download the trial version of Acronis for free and use that. just connect both drives and follow the instructions to image the old to the new one.
 
Most HD manufacturers offer free utilities that will quickly transfer complete disk contents, including multi-partition structure. If you have multi-partitions, the utility will offer choice of auto-resizing partition size for the larger HD or manual size selection.

Download, write to floppy, CD or DVD, boot and follow the menu instructions.

Hope this helps!
 
I just migrated to new hard drives using vista and acronis. For the most part the procedure was a near success. What you have to do is install Acronis home inside your active partition and image it to a usb drive. Also your going to need to boot from an Acronis bootable rescue CD when your new harddrive is attached and restore the file to the new drive. Real easy. Just be careful moving partitions of Vista to a new hard drive in that Vista doesn't like to be moved from lets say one sata channel to another, or from a pata channel to a sata channel. You may have to have your Vista setup DVD ready to do a repair just in case there is a problem booting. It happened to me just this week. Shouldn't be a problem but could happen...

Good luck.
 
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