- Jan 15, 2014
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I'll outline the situation.
I am home for a limited amount of time and, as the family 'tech expert' - a position I'm almost wholly unqualified for - have been tasked with setting up my dad's new business computer. His old machine is failing and a computer entirely necessary for managing the online part of his business.
There are a number of programs that he requires but because of our location there is no opportunity to purchase physical copies and our internet speed and my time constraint do not allow us to download them or have them posted to us. Poor planning, I know, but it is the situation we're in.
I plan, as a temporary measure, to clone the hard drive from his previous laptop to a partition on his new one. The idea being that he can boot into that partition whilst I'm away and the next time I'm home I can bring physical copies of all of the software he requires to allow us to setup the laptop properly.
Details:
Old hard drive - 250 GB, Vista (mounted in a USB2 caddy)
New hard drive - 1TB, Win8 (2 partitions - one 750GB, the other 250GB - created with AOMEI partition assistant software)
I want to clone the old hard drive to the 250GB partition of the new hard drive so that we have the option of either booting into Vista or Win8.
I've been trying using various different applications (Macarium and a couple from AOMEI) for a while now with no luck.
I have extracted the Win8 product key from the registry so worst case scenario we can perform a full format on the new hard drive but a method that allows us to preserve the contents of the 750GB partition would be preferred.
Please if someone has anything that might help could they share it.
The timescale we're working to is Friday evening.
Thank you in advance, I hope someone can help.
I am home for a limited amount of time and, as the family 'tech expert' - a position I'm almost wholly unqualified for - have been tasked with setting up my dad's new business computer. His old machine is failing and a computer entirely necessary for managing the online part of his business.
There are a number of programs that he requires but because of our location there is no opportunity to purchase physical copies and our internet speed and my time constraint do not allow us to download them or have them posted to us. Poor planning, I know, but it is the situation we're in.
I plan, as a temporary measure, to clone the hard drive from his previous laptop to a partition on his new one. The idea being that he can boot into that partition whilst I'm away and the next time I'm home I can bring physical copies of all of the software he requires to allow us to setup the laptop properly.
Details:
Old hard drive - 250 GB, Vista (mounted in a USB2 caddy)
New hard drive - 1TB, Win8 (2 partitions - one 750GB, the other 250GB - created with AOMEI partition assistant software)
I want to clone the old hard drive to the 250GB partition of the new hard drive so that we have the option of either booting into Vista or Win8.
I've been trying using various different applications (Macarium and a couple from AOMEI) for a while now with no luck.
I have extracted the Win8 product key from the registry so worst case scenario we can perform a full format on the new hard drive but a method that allows us to preserve the contents of the 750GB partition would be preferred.
Please if someone has anything that might help could they share it.
The timescale we're working to is Friday evening.
Thank you in advance, I hope someone can help.
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