Rock --
Bought 2 new 320GB drives - Prior to installing the primary, I did a
complete PC Backup to the slave. Installed the new drive, booted into the
Vista DVD, did my keyboard-language etc; then did a Windows Repair. It found
the backup and restored it completely. Once finished (after a reboot for the
new hard drive), expanded the 111GB partition, to the full 320GB. Worked like
a champ! Must admit, this was a very easy (albeit a little time-consuming due
to the volume of data) way to upgrade a drive, without having to re-load. All
done with tools available within Vista. Final note: copied all data from the
old slave to a directory on the new disk, installed the second new 320GB
drive, prepared it, then copied the data back. A couple of things needed to
be re-indexed (Music Library on D), but it's working very well indeed. Do not
remember this capability in XP without 3rd party software.
Thought you all would like to know --
"Rock" wrote:
> "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,
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
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