Want to transfer files to a larger hard disk ....
Hello. I have a desktop PC (2005 Sony Viao VGC-RB43) with an original 200GB 7200rpm hard drive. I have regularly backed up to a large external drive, and happily have never needed to recover anything, but my internal drive is getting old (it's 6 years old and runs 18hrs/day, every day) and I'm about to make the first restore I've ever done, so I'm a little anxious.
I am going to replace the original internal drive with a LARGER, solid state drive, a 256MB OCZ PCI-Express card. Therefore I plan to use my Acronis (9.0, build 3854) to (1) make a fresh bootable recovery disk, (2) do a full backup onto my external drive, (3) remove the old drive, (4) install the PCI-Express card drive, (5) boot using the recovery disk, (6) copy the full back up onto the new drive, and (7) use the new drive as my new bootable c:/ drive.
I am asking if there is anything I should know, regarding precautions or preferred settings on my Acronis (e.g., compression level, or no compression, etc.) to make the copying as reliable as possible. The reason I'm not planning to just use the Acronis "cloning" feature is that I've heard that Acronis doesn't work for drives of different sizes -- so am I doing things the right way?
Your advice and suggestions are welcomed. Thank you.
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