Raptor -> Velociraptor - How to copy.

Hi!

I filled up my 75GB Raptor last night. So, I took this as a perfect opportunity to upgrade to a new 300GB Velociraptor.

What is the easiest way to "clone" my old hdd? Do you think I can just hook up the new hdd as a slave and drag and drop the entire old drive to it? Will it boot when I hook up the new drive as the primary?

Make sense? I've done this before, but I can't remember how. I might have used Ghost, but the copy I had wasn't compatible with Vista Ultimate.

Thanks!

Vista should have a disk image utility inder the tools section. Create an image to a 3rd location such as a backpack drive. Swap the new drive in, boot off the windows disk and select the image restore option. Easy! Or you can grab a new copy of ghost if you dont' trust the MS version.

Thanks for the tips guys. Vista won't let me image just the Raptor (C:\). It wants me to image either the whole system or select files. I have two hdds installed and only want to create an image of the Raptor. So, I thought I would try Acronis True Image 11 Home, because it was cheaper than Ghost and got some great reviews. BUT I keep getting an error while trying to install it. I have spent 6 hours so far with customer support trying to get it fixed. Now, I am sending them log files. First impressions not so great. I might have wasted $40.

I've just transferred my dual boot os from a 150 gb raptor to the wd velociraptor using acronis true image . which did a proportional split for the partitions.

This was all very scary ,as this is very unfamiliar ground for me , and it all went without a hitch. I am very impressed with the acronis product.

i had bought it bundled with acronis disk director suite.

My boot manager went awol this week and my it tech used my vista disk to reboot , and then told me that i had lost my dual boot setup . I did a google search for a boot manager type software , and was suprised to find I already owened one in Acronis disk director! Within what seemed like only a couple of miinutes , asronis os selector was running and i can dual boot again! A different IT tech wanted to charge me $400.00 to get it going again!

All I can say is stick with the acronis product

Cheers Greg

Acronis TrueImage workstation is an amazing program. We use it at work. I have it on my workstation myself. It's just amazingly easy to clone a hard drive using this program.

All you do is install your new hard drive, boot off the cd, and click clone disk. You can resize the partitions to how you want it. Redo the partitions if you want to. Of course there is a minimum size you can set based on how much data is to actually be cloned.

I'm pretty sure the home edition does the cloning also and it's 50 bucks. Acronis also has universal restore which allows you to restore the images you take to a new different computer. I've experimented this at work and it's amazing how well it works. I've made an image of a dell computer and restored the image to a sony computer using completely different hardware. This addon though is only available for workstation and server versions.

This is an old post but maybe it'll help still. Or perhaps help someone else.

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And it was cheaper. Have you used the wipe utilitly on True Image?

I love it so far. I got the 300 GB. I might do a little benchmarking (or see if I can find some) between the old Raptor and the Velociraptor. I don't know how big the improvement might be, since they are both 10kRPM. I haven't really noticed a difference. I thought Vista might be loading faster, but it might just be me wanting to see a difference. What are you using now?

Is there any benefit to using indexing?