Migrating OS Without Data Loss

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Matt Joshlin

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Currently my bootable HDD is confined to an HDD docking station, which I have plugged into my computers ESATA port. I also have a 3TB HDD currently intalled in my machine.

I want to make my 3TB drive the primary, and boot from it. Is there anything I can do to make this a success WITHOUT losing any data on the new drive?
 
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hang-the-9
Create a second partiton on the large drive, move your data to that partition. Then you can install Windows on the fist partition of the drive, or even dump a drive image on it that you can make from your current boot drive. Just make sure you don't touch the second partition on it.
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Dr_JRE

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There is DiskWizard for Seagate, Samsung and Maxtor:
http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/savvio-15k/discwizard-master-dl/
Instructions:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/201991en

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You can use a cloning app such as Redo! Backup & Restore
http://redobackup.org

(After using Redo to clone to a new HDD, you must use gparted ["Start" -> System -> GParted] to resize the partition to get the most out of your drive, then boot from your windows disk, select repair my computer, and run startup repair.
Windows 7 eval can be downloaded from softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-7-Download-118183.html )
 
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Create a second partiton on the large drive, move your data to that partition. Then you can install Windows on the fist partition of the drive, or even dump a drive image on it that you can make from your current boot drive. Just make sure you don't touch the second partition on it.
 
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