If this is a one-time swap (upgrade), use whatever utility your hard drive
manufacturer offers to copy the old drive to the new one and re-activate
when done. If you want to swap hard drives back and forth - nope, won't
work.
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<markharris2000@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Should be simple enough. I bought a new PC with a SATA boot drive and
> a second SATA data holding drive (two drives). I simply want to swap
> the boot drive (first drive) for a higher capacity drive. The new
> drive is SATA also.
>
> I can't find any specific Microsoft sanctioned approach to do this
> under VISTA PREMIUM, and lots of fragments of discussions for folks
> trying to do this, with random and limited success. I even saw a
> reference to what appears that the OS actually binds itself the the
> disk hardware ID itself in the 'registry'.
>
> Does anyone know of any simple suggestions, perhaps using commercial
> tools (microsoft or whoever) to allow the disk swap?
>