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Need help with disk management and True Image 2009

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I have a problem that many may have in the next few months. I have a very new Dell XPS435 with vista ultimate and will want to upgrade to a Windows 7. My current hard drive has, (see attached) from right to left a 683Gb C: partition and just to the left of that is a 15Gb D: recovery partition which is not needed and finally on the far left is a 71Mb partition marked Healthy(EISA Configuration). I have no idea what that is but someone mentioned it could be Dell diagnostics. A picture of that drive is attached.

I have TI2009 and have made several images so far. I took a brand new WD640Gb and initialized and formatted the entire disk as NTFS. My question is if I create an image of the vista C: partition and restore it to the new drive and expand it, will it be bootable? If not can anyone give me some pointers on how to do this? I definetely must do an inplace upgrade. I realize a clean install would solve some problems but its not to be. Any help very much appreciated.

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It should be bootable, but the problem with Dell is some of their systems have some tricky proprietary boot code, other Dell users may be able to help as far as your model is concerned.

I take it the 'dirty install' method won't work for you, allowing W7 to move your Vista files into Vista.old folder?

Have you checked on the Dell website for W7 driver availability, as you may need updated drivers? My Lenovo laptop required some, though it wasn't a show stopper without them apart from the finger recognition system.

If you can beg or borrow a Vista DVD, then make your drive bootable again will be quite easy, I don't think the W7 DVD will easily run the repair option until after it is installed.

bodgy, I was out of town today and was very happy to see your reply this evening. Unfortunately for me I am also very red faced. I OWN a vista ultimate upgrade DVD and until I read your reply it never dawned on me to use it. Major senior event! I have never used it to repair anything before but knew it could be used for that. Can't be to hard to learn. I had also thought of leaving the 71Mb partition in since it is so small and could contain the boot code. Thanks to you that won't be necessary now.

Including this machine I have been talked into upgrading a total of 4 machines to Win7 by friends and relatives. I didn't argue much but I am just too old to reinstall all those programs and data. Have done that since win95 but no more for me.

I have checked the Dell site and downloaded several drivers and will have to upgrade one BIOS but see no major problems there. Famous last words! Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks bodgy for the reply. I think you may have saved me a world of grief and I am very appreciative you would take the time to help out. Thanks again.