Rock

"SCFrank" <SCFrank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> 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

In addition to Frankster's reply, Ultimate comes with Complete PC Backup
which is drive imaging. Use that to image all the partitions to an external
USB drive, then remove the old drive, install the new, and restore the image
by booting the Vista DVD and choose repair the computer. Then choose
Complete PC Backup restore.

Acronis True Image Home version 10 works in Vista as well. I'm not sure if
Symantec has a Vista compatible ghost product yet,

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]