Hi all,
I have a Dell Inspiron 530s with one 288gig hard drive (SATA) running Vista home premium/64 (SP2). Although the system seems is running okay, I am preparing to replace the drive (DR0) because of “event errors ID 7. Also taking this opportunity to replace DR0 with a larger capacity drive, say 500gig. I downloaded “EASEUS Disk Copy” and created a DVD bootable disk with cloning software. My thought is to add/install the NEW drive (DR1), then boot off the DVD and clone the old to the new drive, then replace DR0 with DR1. First, does this procedure seem OK? Any pitfalls? Also: By cloning the smaller drive to a larger drive, will I be able to use the additional space or will I be restricted to the 288 gigs on the original drive?
Thanks
I have a Dell Inspiron 530s with one 288gig hard drive (SATA) running Vista home premium/64 (SP2). Although the system seems is running okay, I am preparing to replace the drive (DR0) because of “event errors ID 7. Also taking this opportunity to replace DR0 with a larger capacity drive, say 500gig. I downloaded “EASEUS Disk Copy” and created a DVD bootable disk with cloning software. My thought is to add/install the NEW drive (DR1), then boot off the DVD and clone the old to the new drive, then replace DR0 with DR1. First, does this procedure seem OK? Any pitfalls? Also: By cloning the smaller drive to a larger drive, will I be able to use the additional space or will I be restricted to the 288 gigs on the original drive?
Thanks
My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- Intel Pentium Dual CPU E220, 2.20Ghz
- Memory
- 4 GB