Frankster

Most disk manufacturers include in the kit a program to auto-configure your
new drive either as an additional drive or as a replacement boot drive. In
the replacement case, the utility will automatically copy all of the
contents of your old drive over to the new drive. Slick as a whistle.

If you buy the new drive OEM you may not get this utility. In that case, go
to the drive manufacturer's website and check. It is usually available for
download.

-Frank

"SCFrank" <SCFrank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E8A8BB07-020B-48FB-8093-4C1C4F5EF1ED@microsoft.com...
> Greetings all-
> Looks like this group has some pretty serious expertise with Vista. I'm
> running Vista Ultimate (Home Premium upgrade - anytime upgrade to
> Ultimate).
> All is currently very smooth, with one exception which needs to be
> addressed,
> so I thought this would be the best place to ask to following question:
>
> I am running out of disk space on my 120GB drive and would like to replace
> it with a 300GB or better, so what I'd like to know is --- Is there a
> ghosting type program such as Acronis True Image, or Norton Ghost, that
> would
> allow me to make a bit-for-bit copy of my existing Vista volume and move
> it
> to a larger drive, without having to back-up critical files, and do a
> triple
> re-install (XP, then Home Premium, then the Ultimate install)??
>
> Any help is appriciated - Frank