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Cloning my primary drive

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I have a 500 gig primary drive that's getting old and I want to upgrade it to a new drive as insurance. I have a new 1 terrabyte drive available. Which is the best way to do this - True Image 2013 or Disk Director 11?

Windows XP Professional SP3

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Bob,

You can clone with either as you've realised, so what it comes down to is which one are you most likely to use again. I think I would plump for True Image first, as this gives you the flexibility to make further images and manipulate them should you so wish, it is also more up to date than DD11 which hasn't been updated for a little while now, although as you are using XP that may not be important to you.

If you are pretty sure you are not interested in imaging in the foreseable future, then select DD11 especially if you intend to move partitions around at a later date.

Thanks - I used a recover CD to boot from and ended up using Disk Director 11 as it clearly had an option to copy the drive signature. I did have an issue that took a while to resolve.

Note I have two drives and the second drive was not being changed.

1. Cloned the drive, powered off and removed the original.
2. Restarted with the new drive and Windows would not start, I was stuck and BIOS, with several characters on the screen showing random colored random characters.
3. Powered off - removed new, reinserted old and booted ok.
4. Spent several hours playing around, and experimenting.
5. Inserted the new drive again and found that the BIOS settings had an option for drive order, and the the second drive was the first in the list and the new drive was the last. Changed the order and was able to boot from the new drive.