Hi All
My trusty laptop's 250GB hard drive is on its way out so bought a 500GB replacement. Have a lot of audio software on it which, thanks to tedious installation/authorising procedures, means I'll be cloning the entire Win7 OS and data rather than going for a clean install. Have got a copy of a Paragon Drive Copy Professional 15 so should be a fairly straightforward procedure (I hope). Can someone just check over my itinerary and point out any flaws and potential problems?
As there can only be one laptop hard drive plugged into the mobo at one time I'll:
1) Back up all life-critical data from outgoing hard drive onto an external USB hard drive just in case it all goes belly up further on.
2) Using the Paragon program, clone the entire hard drive - Win7 OS and C: and D: hard drive partitions - onto another external USB hard drive.
3) Take out the outgoing hard drive, pop in the new one, install the clone (following all instructions from the Paragon program manual about booting from a completely virgin hard drive)
4) Laugh at how brilliant my life is.
Any problems with this?
Also, is it worth doing all housekeeping chores (uninstalling unused programs, deleting old files, defragmenting drive, etc...) before or after the migration? Will it make any difference?
Thanks in advance!
My trusty laptop's 250GB hard drive is on its way out so bought a 500GB replacement. Have a lot of audio software on it which, thanks to tedious installation/authorising procedures, means I'll be cloning the entire Win7 OS and data rather than going for a clean install. Have got a copy of a Paragon Drive Copy Professional 15 so should be a fairly straightforward procedure (I hope). Can someone just check over my itinerary and point out any flaws and potential problems?
As there can only be one laptop hard drive plugged into the mobo at one time I'll:
1) Back up all life-critical data from outgoing hard drive onto an external USB hard drive just in case it all goes belly up further on.
2) Using the Paragon program, clone the entire hard drive - Win7 OS and C: and D: hard drive partitions - onto another external USB hard drive.
3) Take out the outgoing hard drive, pop in the new one, install the clone (following all instructions from the Paragon program manual about booting from a completely virgin hard drive)
4) Laugh at how brilliant my life is.
Any problems with this?
Also, is it worth doing all housekeeping chores (uninstalling unused programs, deleting old files, defragmenting drive, etc...) before or after the migration? Will it make any difference?
Thanks in advance!