How do I go about achieving this? This helps avoid the need to completely reinstall OS and other software. Just cloning the Windows 7 system to the new hard drive and install it on the new computer. In such cases, you will probably want to clone Windows OS onto a new hard drive instead of performing a clean installation. No matter which way you choose to transfer Windows 7 from one hard drive to another, you can boot from the destination disk successfully afterward.
Step 1. You will get disk partition information as the picture below. Step 2. If you have another image in mind you would like to restore instead, select Select a system image. Please take into consideration partition layout and the size of the image you want to restore. Since our intention is to move our image to a larger drive that we backed up earlier, we will go with the default. If you have made any partition changes since you last backed up your Windows 7 installation, you can exclude those disks if you want so that the backed up installation will restore just on the selected drive.
A final warning, the image restored will be an exact replica of what we backed up earlier, so any partition changes on the drive will be deleted unless excluded. Restoration can take some time depending on the size of the backup, sit back and relax or go do something while it restores.
Of course, you should make sure you are connected to a Uninterruptible Power Supply when doing a task like this. Our Restoration is now complete. The computer will automatically restart, now to see if it will boot. We are not done yet, because the System Image did an exact restoration of the partition layout, any additional disk space since that image was created will be available as unallocated space.
To make sure it is available to the new drive and Windows, do the following. Click Start, right click Computer, click Manage. Right click the C: Drive, click Extend. Automatically, the unallocated disk space will be selected, if not, select it under Available and click Add, click Next. Note: Do not clone your old drive to the new drive, use an image backup of your old drive to an external USB drive and restore it to the new drive.
Note: Install Todo and then create an "Emergency Disk" before you start creating your first image backup. Acronis True Image - has a 30 day trial version available, trial Key sent to your Email Address. Note: For users who have a Western Digital disk drive there is a free version of Acronis Andre or any Microsoft experts, Hope you're still around. It's almost This is a very helpful guide. Thank you!
The process of finding and re-loading all those on a new hard drive is such an awful long and daunting process. Be aware that cloning a failing hard drive is a bad practice. Chances are high that there is corruption on that failing drive that will be precisely copied to a new one. I am considering your info and suggestion. To Canadian, Thank you for your advice. Let me say that I have just made the "custom" install of Windows 7. In this way, you can make the computer work much faster and store much more data.
If your computer stops working from time to time and you want to upgrade it, it is better to copy C drive to a new drive. As a result, it is no need to spend time reinstalling the OS and your necessary applications. Your computer has been used for a long time and there are lots of tools installed on C drive. And you are suggested to replace the hard drive to improve the performance.
In order to make the new hard drive works the same as the old one, you need to clone system drive to the external hard drive. Step 1: Connect your external hard drive. Step 3: Choose C drive as the source partition under the Copy feature. Step 4: Make the external hard drive as the destination partition.
Step 5: Begin the Clone Process. Thanks for the post. April 10, at am. Would you mind if I share your blog with my zynga group? April 16, at am. You can share it by citing our our link, thanks. Disk clone is especially useful when you want to upgrade the older smaller hard drive to a newer larger one without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.
This article will introduce a Windows 7 clone software, which offers a safe and efficient disk clone to transfer Windows 7 from one hard drive to another without reinstalling Windows operating system and applications. Follow the detailed step-by-step instructions to clone Windows 7 hard drive to another hard drive. Step 1. On the main page, find and click " Tools ". You can see clone and other utilities. Step 3. Then you need to choose the target disk. Make sure the target disk is larger than the source disk or partition.
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