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Hello, I wish to replace my existing 80gig internal hard drive with a 250 gb internal hard drive, I am not quite sure what to do, either backup full image to my existing external hard drive, then fit new internal hard drive and restore image or should I use the clone method, can anyone advise please, also will my existing partitions transfer to new hard drive and if so can they be expanded.
my os is win xp sp3
many thanks
Steve

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I recently reorganized my laptop to have an 2nd 320Gb HD replacing the CD drive in a caddy and a 80Gb SSD in place of the original 200Gb HD.

All of this is not related directly to your problem except that after having installed the 2nd 320Gb HD and moved a number of things to it, I had a 200Gb HD with only 40Gb of OS and other things on it.

So I created a full backup of my 200Gb disk containing the MBR, the 1st FAT partition (Dell Diagnostics), and the NTFS OS partition containing all the XP3 stuff.

I then removed the 200Gb HD and installed the 80Gb SSD in its place. Then booting from the ATI rescue disk I reinstalled the partition one by one on it. This has to be done in the exact order they were on the original disk, but partitions can be resized at reload time using the ATI rescue loader. It does not matter whether new disk is larger or smaller than the original one, provided that the total size of the partitions to restore fits on the new disk.

The whole process is thoroughly described in a document I found on the Acronis site, http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/08/3426/gh_acro…

I recently reorganized my laptop to have an 2nd 320Gb HD replacing the CD drive in a caddy and a 80Gb SSD in place of the original 200Gb HD.

All of this is not related directly to your problem except that after having installed the 2nd 320Gb HD and moved a number of things to it, I had a 200Gb HD with only 40Gb of OS and other things on it.

So I created a full backup of my 200Gb disk containing the MBR, the 1st FAT partition (Dell Diagnostics), and the NTFS OS partition containing all the XP3 stuff.

I then removed the 200Gb HD and installed the 80Gb SSD in its place. Then booting from the ATI rescue disk I reinstalled the partition one by one on it. This has to be done in the exact order they were on the original disk, but partitions can be resized at reload time using the ATI rescue loader. It does not matter whether new disk is larger or smaller than the original one, provided that the total size of the partitions to restore fits on the new disk.

The whole process is thoroughly described in a document I found on the Acronis site, http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/08/3426/gh_acro…