Cloning a Windows 7 64 bit Hard Drive

[L P]

I'm trying to Clone my notebook's 80 gig Hitachi to a 500 gig Seagate but the Various Software I have tried doesn't seem to work.

Anybody got any ideas?

I'd really like to slap in my new drive but I really don't want to have to start over with a clean install.

Thank You.

[Calvin74]

I'm trying to Clone my notebook's 80 gig Hitachi to a 500 gig Seagate but the Various Software I have tried doesn't seem to work.

Anybody got any ideas?

I'd really like to slap in my new drive but I really don't want to have to start over with a clean install.

Thank You.

if you had a 2nd machine and could hook both hdds up to the same machine it shouldn't be to hard to just copy all the files over....

[Calvin74]

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy10.htm

that link looks like it has a program you can use although it is for older versions of windows the process should be the same...

[L P]

The problem I'm having is the older programs don't seem to support Windows 7 or a 64 bit operating system.

I have the new drive hoked up with a USB connection. My laptop only has one drive bay.

[Mahdi]

wait until Friday and ask on LifeHacker on the open comments thread they should be able to tell you how to do it as a few of them have done it already and if your lucky there may even be a guide on there as to how to do it

[L P]

wait until Friday and ask on LifeHacker on the open comments thread they should be able to tell you how to do it as a few of them have done it already and if your lucky there may even be a guide on there as to how to do it

THANK YOU! I found some free software on LifeHacker by searching their articles. A product called Easeus Todo Backup 1.1 that was on www.download.com. It was the only program I found that worked out of 4 that I tried.

[Calvin74]

THANK YOU! I found some free software on LifeHacker by searching their articles. A product called Easeus Todo Backup 1.1 that was on www.download.com. It was the only program I found that worked out of 4 that I tried.

that is just weird to me since my understanding was that windows 7 was supposed to run anything that ran in xp... i guess MS was wrong about that...

[L P]

that is just weird to me since my understanding was that windows 7 was supposed to run anything that ran in xp... i guess MS was wrong about that...

I was upgrading my drive from an 80 GB to a 500 GB. This program made a perfect copy of my old drive to the new one. Then I just popped the new drive into my notebook after removing the old and rebooted.

I tried 4 other programs and none of them worked with a 64 bit version of Windows 7.

[Mahdi]

No problem as one of the current Tech majors I like to be of service when I can