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| 731311 | 2008-12-21 00:58:00 | I have a 80gb drive with 2 40gb partitions, one of them has Vista installed on it, the other partition is empty (just a spare files drive) I have a 40gb HDD I want to swap with the 80gb drive... is it possible to 'clone' the Vista drive onto the 40gb drive and swap the drives? If so, how? I then want to remove the 80gb, replace it with the 40gb, and boot off that as if nothing had changed (or little ;)) I need the 80gb for a different PC. Thanks, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 731312 | 2008-12-21 02:07:00 | As long as one of the drives is a Seagate - ( this program sometimes doesn't like it if no Seagate drives) download and install Seagate disk wizard (www.seagate.com) - make a bootable CD from it. The current Vista Drive, make sure its set to Master - set the other drive to Slave - ( this is assuming they are IDE - if SATA then it will sort its self out) boot from the CD - select the current Vista Drive as source Drive - then select the other drive as destination drive - where it says resize drive - agree - clone the current vista to the other drive. Turn off the PC. Disconnect the original Vista Drive - attached the newly cloned drive - start the PC - make sure you have the Vista DVD in the optical drive and make sure it boots from that DVD - Follow these instructions (www.vistax64.com) - METHOD TWO - select Startup Repair - when finished Vista should now boot fine on the new drive. You normally have to repair the startup files after cloning a drive - something goes screwy during the clone, but startup repair usually fixes it. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 731313 | 2008-12-21 03:23:00 | thanks wainuitech, downloading discwizard now... Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 731314 | 2008-12-21 04:34:00 | Well :D The 80gb drive is sitting on the desk :) So I'm guessing it worked lol (and I didn't do the whole repair option... I figured I'll try without and see if it works, if it didn't I'll do it lol) Thanks wainuitech :D Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 731315 | 2008-12-21 05:17:00 | :thumbs: Glad it went smooth first time - Sometimes you're lucky and the clone doesn't need to have the startup repaired. I Thought better to add that in than have you wondering why it was not working if it all turned to custard. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 731316 | 2008-12-21 05:22:00 | I Thought better to add that in than have you wondering why it was not working if it all turned to custard.very wise, thanks for that :) I would have been wondering what to do next if it had, so cheers :D Mike. |
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