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massive88

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Copying a System Drive to a new HDD
« on: January 25, 2010, 03:30:25 pm »
I currently have my Arcade Machine working on a 240 gig drive, with a 30 gig C:\ system partition and a D:\ data partition where all my goodies are set up and working.

Id like to take this drive for another computer, and use a 320 gig drive that I have for this purpose, ideally with the same size C:\ system partition, and a now larger data partition.

Does anyone know of a program or way to create an exact copy of my 240 gig drive, partitions, windows system, and all, on to the new, bigger drive, such that when I swap them out on the mother board, windows will boot up just as it did with the smaller drive?

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Re: Copying a System Drive to a new HDD
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2010, 05:45:17 pm »
I'm pretty sure Clonezilla will work:
http://clonezilla.org/

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Re: Copying a System Drive to a new HDD
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2010, 05:57:27 pm »
When you install a new hard drive, say your 320 to replace the 240, you're essentially copying the original drive.  I believe you'd be able to keep the original intact.  I believe you'd have your partitions as needed too.  30/remaining

As always, if possible you'd want to back up the data from the 240 before attempting anything....just in case.

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Re: Copying a System Drive to a new HDD
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2010, 08:48:58 pm »
I had good luck w/ DriveImage XML: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=97163.0

(though I had no partitions...)

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Re: Copying a System Drive to a new HDD
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2010, 09:53:27 pm »
Clonezilla worked great, thanks for the tip!

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Re: Copying a System Drive to a new HDD
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2010, 04:05:50 pm »
Acronis all the way. It lets you create partitions.
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