I recently bought a replacement drive (1 TB) for my dad's Compaq laptop at WD's employee store blowout sale, to replace the drive that came with the computer (160 GB), which is probably the slowest hard drive I have seen in the last 15 years. This is on Windows Vista, by the way.
However, imaging the drive is quite a complicated situation, and I'm not so sure how to accomplish it. The drive is configured with two partitions: the first is the main disk partition, the second is a backup partition which contains the data to return the drive to factory configuration. I need the backup partition to stay the same while the main partition grows to fill the drive. And the main partition is before the backup partition, so I can't simply resize the main partition.
Does anyone know how to handle this situation (preferably without buying any programs)?
However, imaging the drive is quite a complicated situation, and I'm not so sure how to accomplish it. The drive is configured with two partitions: the first is the main disk partition, the second is a backup partition which contains the data to return the drive to factory configuration. I need the backup partition to stay the same while the main partition grows to fill the drive. And the main partition is before the backup partition, so I can't simply resize the main partition.
Does anyone know how to handle this situation (preferably without buying any programs)?
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