cloning boot drive to C:
hi,
i'd like to clone my boot drive (xp sp3) from an older WD 250 gb to a new WD 1 tb and then make the new drive C:. i have acronis WD edition which i assume i'll be using, but i'd very much appreciate a quick walk-thru before the drive arrives in the mail.
some thoughts-
should i boot to the acronis CD?
is it before or after the cloning that i will need to adjust the drive letters?
and how?
any trouble "expanding" the partition to fill the 1 tb?
thanks

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John,
You haven't got much of a response as you've slipped your post into the corporate forum rather than the True Image Home one. ABR10 doesn't clone.
Does the WD version allow you to make a rescue CD? If so this is the better way to clone.
If your PC is a laptop then a reverse clone is the way to go, that is put the old drive in the external caddy and the new drive in the laptop and clone!
If you have a PC and intend to insert the new drive so you have both drives running together, make sure that when you are asked to reboot the PC, you disable the old drive before restarting otherwise Windows will become confused as to which drive it is booting from.
You will get the option to expand the partition when you are performing the cloning procedure.
Make sure your original drive has a partition lable, as within Linux the drive letters won't be the same, whereas drive lables are.
Make sure you DON't select the delete original drive option.
Before you start anything, give the rescue CD a test run and make sure you can see all your drives and your keyboard and mouse work.
The cloned drive will automatically reveal itself as 'C' as this is actually an entry in Windows registry and not on the drive itself.
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ok, that makes sense and i think i'm good to go. thanks for answering my off-topic post.
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