Vista - Moving vista

I just got a hard drive that's larger than the drive that I installed vista
on. I would like to move my vista to the new hard drive and wipe the smaller
one. How would i do that?

dreamcaster182 <dreamcaster182@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I just got a hard drive that's larger than the drive that I
> installed vista on. I would like to move my vista to the new hard
> drive and wipe the smaller one. How would i do that?

Many hard drives such as Maxtor or Western Digital come with software
that allows a bit by bit copy of your old HD to the new HD. If yours
doesn't have such software with it you can probably download it for
free from the manufacturer. Just be sure to use the software from the
people who made your new HD, Maxtor's software complains if you have a
Western Digital HD and vice versa.

Here's the link to Seagate/Maxtor:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/

Use the DiskWizard for Seagate and Maxiblast for Maxtor.

Western Digital:

http://support.wdc.com/download/

Look Data Lifeguard Tools, you can burn a CD or use a floppy disk.