[jimdon]

I installed a new internal faster and bigger hard driveand would like to know if I can transfer windows 7 Pro 64 bit that I'm running on an older smaller drive to the new drive. How do you do it? Thanks Jim

[amon91]

You can use Macrium Reflect to image your old drive, then load it back. It's pretty simple.

[Lorenzol]

But to prevent any errors, you should just do a clean install of Windows on the new drive, and hook up your old drive and transfer your old files.

When transferring the files, you may need to change the permissions of the data in the properties.

[pat cooke]

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But to prevent any errors, you should just do a clean install of Windows on the new drive, and hook up your old drive and transfer your old files.

When transferring the files, you may need to change the permissions of the data in the properties.

This should not be necessary - the imaging recommended by amon91 should do the job very simply and quickly.

[dannytheone]

pat cooke, on 07 November 2009 - 08:38 PM, said:

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But to prevent any errors, you should just do a clean install of Windows on the new drive, and hook up your old drive and transfer your old files.

When transferring the files, you may need to change the permissions of the data in the properties.

This should not be necessary - the imaging recommended by amon91 should do the job very simply and quickly.

True, imaging straight from one drive to another shouldn't present any errors at all.

[jimdon]

amon91, on 07 November 2009 - 08:54 PM, said:

You can use Macrium Reflect to image your old drive, then load it back. It's pretty simple.

If I do this will it transfer the whole drive? What I mean is the old drive came from Dell with a 10 gig partition on the front of drive. I deleted partition to make it unalocated. Tried to extend, but you can't extend Backwards. So the upgrade to windows 7 pro 64 bit can't use the whole drive. Then I used easy transfer and did not read enough and transfered everything. I did not want to do this. I got a new drive and would like to Do a clean transfer of win 7 to the new drive and just load what I want and take my time. I've got the upgrade disc and have heard you can't do this. I don't know why. But any way if I can't Have two copies on the same computer, will I be able to image and transfer to new drive And not get the Dell partition? Thanks Jim

[amon91]

jimdon, on 08 November 2009 - 09:17 PM, said:

If I do this will it transfer the whole drive? What I mean is the old drive came from Dell with a 10 gig partition on the front of drive. I deleted partition to make it unalocated. Tried to extend, but you can't extend Backwards. So the upgrade to windows 7 pro 64 bit can't use the whole drive. Then I used easy transfer and did not read enough and transfered everything. I did not want to do this. I got a new drive and would like to Do a clean transfer of win 7 to the new drive and just load what I want and take my time. I've got the upgrade disc and have heard you can't do this. I don't know why. But any way if I can't Have two copies on the same computer, will I be able to image and transfer to new drive And not get the Dell partition? Thanks Jim

Yeah, I believe you can tell it to only back up a partition, not the whole drive. It's pretty easy to use.

[jimdon]

amon91, on 07 November 2009 - 07:54 PM, said:

You can use Macrium Reflect to image your old drive, then load it back. It's pretty simple.

Thanks I did what you said and every thing works good. Thanks Jim

[osuwildlifer]

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