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hello,


I resentlly bought a new sata drive im installing in my pc. right now i am using a 30gig ide drive and was upgrading to the new sata. I am currently running windows vista ultimate 32. My question is that i do not have the vista cd or can not obtain one with out buying it. I was wondering if there is a way to get it from my old drive and install it to the new sata?

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You can create an image of the drive and transfer for it to the new drive. Some people refer it as ghosting. I have never done it so I can't tell you specifics but google some of what I said and you'll figure it out.
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Then it should have a vista key code on the outside, and all you need is a vista CD to do a re-install.

There are plenty of drive imaging software packages out there (acronis is one) that will move the data from one drive to the next.

there is no cd key on the side of the pc. It was a custom build. Also i am not what im suppose to do when i use norton ghost. Do i install the sata drive to my pc with the orginal ide drive still installed>?

+1 to Acronis.

You bought a Pirated OS if you dont have a key.

Contact the seller and tell him you will call Microsoft and turn him in if he dont give you a DvD with a product key.

All legal PCs will come with a product key no matter what, custom or retail.

ok i tryed installing acronis tru image 2009 and it will not insatll . it keeps stoping during install. Is there another program i can use that does the same thing. Ive tryed 15 times to install it and it just wont
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