- Apr 28, 2013
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I have a dying (drive electronics fail intermittently, platter is good, no bad sectors) 250GB Seagate Barracuda drive that has two partitions - one for the Windows OS, and a small 450MB recovery partition. I want to move all the contents to another hard drive.
I got myself a 2TB WD Blue hard drive and I want to move all my contents from the Seagate drive to the WD drive without having to reinstall, reactivate and reconfigure Windows and every other software that is there right now.
On my WD drive, I want the Windows partition and the recovery partition to exist as it does on the Seagate drive, occupying the same amount of space, leaving aside the rest of the 2TB as unallocated. Later, I can create partitions as needed using Disk Management.
What is the simplest way to do this. I already got Acronis True Image WD Edition. Is there anything else I will need? And what steps should I follow to do the migration. Also, will I have to reactivate Windows?
I got myself a 2TB WD Blue hard drive and I want to move all my contents from the Seagate drive to the WD drive without having to reinstall, reactivate and reconfigure Windows and every other software that is there right now.
On my WD drive, I want the Windows partition and the recovery partition to exist as it does on the Seagate drive, occupying the same amount of space, leaving aside the rest of the 2TB as unallocated. Later, I can create partitions as needed using Disk Management.
What is the simplest way to do this. I already got Acronis True Image WD Edition. Is there anything else I will need? And what steps should I follow to do the migration. Also, will I have to reactivate Windows?
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