edward7458 wrote:
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> I trying to change my 80G HD WITH A 500 G HD. I made a complete backup
> of my computer (5 DVDs). The new HD was unable to boot up with the
> backup DVDs. How does one replace a HD in vista business?
Your new drive, if purchased retail, will have come with cloning software.
If you bought whitebox, then you can download the utility from the new
drive's mftr. You'll create a bootable CD with the file you download by
burning with third-party software as an image, not as data. Boot with the
media you created and clone the first drive to the second drive. Now remove
the first drive entirely and replace it with the new one. The computer
should boot into Windows. Now you can add back the second drive if you like
to format it and use as storage.
Malke
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