Just got a new hard drive. Can i use it?

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Hey
I have two 250 GB hard drives right now, and i want to put the 500GB and the 320GB ones i just got in my computer instead so i have more room. However, Windows 7 is loaded on my hard drives that are in use now. Can i somehow put the new hard drives in and still have my windows 7? like transferring or something like that?
I would really appreciate help! thanks!
I also have an external hard drive hooked up if that helps any.
 
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There is drive cloning software you can download from just about any drive manufactures web site. You basically leave just the drive with Windows hooked up, unhook all other drives. Plug in the new drive you want Windows on, so that you just have the drive with Windows and the new drive hooked up. Run the drive cloning software. It will clone your OS drive to the new drive. Then, you reboot to the BIOS, change the boot order to the new drive first, and presto, you boot to the drive just like it was was the old one. Then you may format, or do whatever you want with the old drive.
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There is drive cloning software you can download from just about any drive manufactures web site. You basically leave just the drive with Windows hooked up, unhook all other drives. Plug in the new drive you want Windows on, so that you just have the drive with Windows and the new drive hooked up. Run the drive cloning software. It will clone your OS drive to the new drive. Then, you reboot to the BIOS, change the boot order to the new drive first, and presto, you boot to the drive just like it was was the old one. Then you may format, or do whatever you want with the old drive.
 
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will this do? http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

 
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So for whatever reason, My computer wont boot when EITHER of them are removed, So im cloning my hard drive to my external where ill boot it from, pop the new ones in, then clone from the external back onto the new hard drive.
 
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