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Want to transfer files to a larger hard disk ....

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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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Kenneth,

What your method is OK, just a query on item 6, I take it you are thinking of restoring the image rather than copying it?

Make sure when making the image you have selected complete disk image and not just the partition. I'm trying to recall v9 so my wording mught be inaccurate, but when you restore the partition you will have an option to use the whole disk. If you don't want to end up with two partitions on your new drive, then make sure you select that option. If you don't it is still possible to persuade the disk back to one partition, it just requires some extra steps.

As this is v9 I'm assuming your OS is XP.

You might find you'll need to remake your tasks as the drive ID in registry will now be different and TIH uses the drive ID in it's tasks so as to know which disk it is talking to.

You've also slipped into the corporate products forum, if you edit your post you can transfer it to the TIH forum where more Home version users will see your post - and my reply! :)