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Transfering Entire System to a Larger Harddrive

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My primary hard drive has become too small and I need to transfer my entire system to a larger hard drive.

Using Acronis True Image 2013 and would appreciate commentary about the best way to do this using True Image.

Thank you
Bill

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Sure. Always best to ask and prepare first. :)

Launch Windows Disk Management, take a screenshot of it showing all drives and print it out. It will be a useful reference when you restore.

Use True Image's media builder to create the ATI 2013 bootable Rescue Media, either on CD-R or USB flash drive.

Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.

In particular, 29618: Grover's new backup and restore guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618

What you will do is to create a full disk backup, clicking the "link" to switch to the mode where you'll select the entire disk rather than just partitions.
Grover's How to Create/Manage Backup Tasks & Backups within Windows (includes How to Create a "Disk Image" or "Disk Mode" Image or "Disk mode" image & more) http://forum.acronis.com/forum/38691

You'll make that full disk backup to another disk, such as to an external USB hard drive.

Shut down. Remove the old drive and install the new, larger drive.

Boot from the ATI 2013 bootable Rescue Media. Validate that backup you just made. If it validates, proceed. Do a full disk restore to the new drive. Follow Grover's restore guide for steps to choose the size you want for partitions on the new drive.

Referring to 2931: Cloning Laptop Hard Disk (http://kb.acronis.com/content/2931)

"(!) The important point to remember is that you need to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Only after this you may do the cloning."

Question:  If I remove the existing 500GB HDD which has windows 8 and my files, and put in the new 1TB HDD in its place, how do I boot my computer ?     The new 1TB HDD does not have any OS on it. My laptop does not have any CD drive.

1. You won't be cloning. I've advised you to create a backup and then restore it.

2. As I wrote: Boot from the ATI 2013 bootable Rescue Media.

The bootable rescue media can be installed on a USB stick. Either by having a dedicated USB stick or if you prefer making an ISO of the recovery environment and then using a used USB stick with a Grub bootloader installed.