Backup drag and drop

[Ted Harris]

My PC has a 1T SATA II hard drive that is showing signs of going out. It has two partitions, one is “C” (Operating system) and ”E” (Data). Is it possible that I could install a similar new hard drive and transfer the data directly from the old to the new? I am probably just under mid-range knowledge and experience. ( I know just enough to get into trouble).
I have O&O DiskImage 6 and have good backups, however it appears that it would be easier to just “Drag and Drop”. I am aware that there would probably be some file path problems. Has anyone done this?

 

[bucd]

Better to use Diskimage 6 to do a backup of all partitions and then restore back to new hard drive.

If you don't, you won't be able to boot with new drive. Windows 7 creates a 100mb partition that is needed for booting. (unless you preformated drive and did without, but it defaults to creating this partition).

Now if it was just data drive (non OS). Drag and drop will be ok.

-D

 

[Ted Harris]

I have been running DiskImage 5 for a long time. I recently upgraded to DiskImage 6 Pro and have done a complete new backup. I am waiting to receive the bootable CD. I would have cloned the drives however my external HDD was not large enough to store them. I assume that I will be able to restore in the new HDD with the bottable CD without having to do any formatting prior. Is this correct? Thanks for the answer.

 

[bucd]

I have been running DiskImage 5 for a long time. I recently upgraded to DiskImage 6 Pro and have done a complete new backup. I am waiting to receive the bootable CD. I would have cloned the drives however my external HDD was not large enough to store them. I assume that I will be able to restore in the new HDD with the bottable CD without having to do any formatting prior. Is this correct? Thanks for the answer.

Yes. Some software can only restore image to same size drive or larger drives. So keep that in mind. I've never used DiskImage myself, but I know a few out there are like that.

-D

 

[corkyg]

My own experience would lead me to clone the old drive to a new one, and that would duplicate the drive, partitions included.

 

[Ted Harris]

Thanks for the advice guys.