Upgrading laptop Hard Disk - best way?

Hi,

I have a MacBook dual booted with Vista. I want to put a 200Gb drive in
to replace my 120Gb, but I don't want to have to reinstall vista and all
my apps. I have a USB external drive that I could place an image on.

Question:
What's the best way to image my drive so that I can just pop in a new
drive and copy over the image? I then want to boot my laptop so that it
is exactly as it was before.

Hmmm, thinking about this, will the Mac partition mess things up? I
don't actually use OS X, so I'm not bothered if I lose that altogether.

Thanks!
Mark.

Mark Allison;533735 Wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a MacBook dual booted with Vista. I want to put a 200Gb drive i
> to replace my 120Gb, but I don't want to have to reinstall vista an
> al
> my apps. I have a USB external drive that I could place an image on
>
> Question
> What's the best way to image my drive so that I can just pop in a ne
> drive and copy over the image? I then want to boot my laptop so that i
> is exactly as it was before
>
> Hmmm, thinking about this, will the Mac partition mess things up?
> don't actually use OS X, so I'm not bothered if I lose that altogether
>
> Thanks
> Mark

Hi Mark

The program Acronis True Image is perferct for what you are wanting t
do. It will allow you to make a exact clone of the hard drive an
install that clone on any hard drive. You can download a full
functional 15-day trial version here

'Download HDD ghosting, data backup and restore software for home an
home office PCs
(http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/

Shaw

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brink;555483 Wrote:
> Mark Allison;533735 Wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a MacBook dual booted with Vista. I want to put a 200Gb drive
> in
> > to replace my 120Gb, but I don't want to have to reinstall vista and
> > all
> > my apps. I have a USB external drive that I could place an image on.
> >
> > Question:
> > What's the best way to image my drive so that I can just pop in a
> new
> > drive and copy over the image? I then want to boot my laptop so that
> it
> > is exactly as it was before.
> >
> > Hmmm, thinking about this, will the Mac partition mess things up? I
> > don't actually use OS X, so I'm not bothered if I lose that
> altogether.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mark.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> The program Acronis True Image is perferct for what you are wanting to
> do. It will allow you to make a exact clone of the hard drive and
> install that clone on any hard drive. You can download a fully
> functional 15-day trial version here.
>
> 'Download HDD ghosting, data backup and restore software for home and
> home office PCs'
> ('Complete hard disk recovery solution, backup, drive copy, clone and
> image computer software'
> (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/))
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> brink
>
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Yeh Acronis Migrate allows you to migrate your files over to your new
hard drive relatively easy without having to reinstall everything so it
is worth using it.


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On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:07:55 +0000, portableds
<> wrote:

>> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
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>> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>
>
>Yeh Acronis Migrate allows you to migrate your files over to your new
>hard drive relatively easy without having to reinstall everything so it
>is worth using it.

I just using Acronis Cloning function migrate client from 10 GB HD to
30 GB HD with no problem. I am impress.