New hard drive
Hi guys!
I have bought a new (and larger) hard drive. I keep a full image of my current Windows installation on a USB drive, and i am hoping i will just be able to restore that image (that i made from the ATI boot disk) on to the new drive? Would i then need to expand the partition size, or will the restore process recognise that i am restoring to a larger drive and give me all available space? Or should i resize the partition once i have restored using Disk Director boot disk?
I only ask this question because i see that Acronis offer a seperate Migrate Easy 7 tool.
I guess Windows will need reactivating though...?
Thanks for all your help and suggestions!
By the way - does ATI2014 boot disk support restoring from USB 3 drives at the higher-than-USB 2 speeds? :)
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Gotcha, thanks for your help!
Interesting point about it expanding partitions proportionately - my C:\ (disk 1, IIRC) drive shows in ATI boot disk as having two partitions - one only being about 100MB in size (but not visible in Windows Explorer).
From what i understand, this is a Windows 8 thing. Knowing my luck, changing that partition will annoy Windows so much that it doesn't boot! :)
Also, thanks for the link to the guides - ill have a read!
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