- Jan 9, 2010
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I have an old Seagate 250gb HD that I want to upgrade to a 1tb WD Black drive. I have used gparted and Acronis True Image 2010 with no success.
250gb drive has two partitions, one for the OS, one for everything else. I am cloning it to the 1tb and the 1tb will have two partitions as well, but the partitions are different sizes from what the 250gb has.
When I use gparted I get a confirmation that everything copied over and was applied, but I get boot errors. Repairing with Win7 system disc gives a botched desktop that doesn't go as far as loading explorer.exe. Acronis True Image 2010 applies the image of the 250gb drive's OS partition (the image is stored on a external) to the 1tb, but again the system won't boot from the 1tb without issues.
I have done the same process multiple times on WinXP and did not encounter any issues. Is there something unique I need to consider when upgrading my HD for Win7 use? Any other programs or techniques you guys would reccomend I use to get my desired result? I'm considering Clonezilla, Easeus, as well as Windows 7 built in image backup utility. I prefer not to use Windows 7 built in as it requires a 3rd drive when upgrading between 2 hard drives (linux distros don't need this) and my external would require some data pruning at this point.
250gb drive has two partitions, one for the OS, one for everything else. I am cloning it to the 1tb and the 1tb will have two partitions as well, but the partitions are different sizes from what the 250gb has.
When I use gparted I get a confirmation that everything copied over and was applied, but I get boot errors. Repairing with Win7 system disc gives a botched desktop that doesn't go as far as loading explorer.exe. Acronis True Image 2010 applies the image of the 250gb drive's OS partition (the image is stored on a external) to the 1tb, but again the system won't boot from the 1tb without issues.
I have done the same process multiple times on WinXP and did not encounter any issues. Is there something unique I need to consider when upgrading my HD for Win7 use? Any other programs or techniques you guys would reccomend I use to get my desired result? I'm considering Clonezilla, Easeus, as well as Windows 7 built in image backup utility. I prefer not to use Windows 7 built in as it requires a 3rd drive when upgrading between 2 hard drives (linux distros don't need this) and my external would require some data pruning at this point.