Go to Windows 7 Disk Manager and resize the C:\ drive partition as now there will be a lot of unused hard drive space.ġ2. Windows 7 Professional should boot normally and without any issues.ġ1. Remove the bootable CD and external RDX hard drive from the Usb 3.0 carrier.ġ0. Upon finishing the Macrium Reflect re-imaging process to the new and larger hard drive, reboot the system.ĩ. After the bootable CD is up and running, re-image the new and larger (blank, but formatted) hard drive from the RDX external source.Ĩ. Insert the external RDX hard drive with the latest C:\ drive image.ħ.
Power up the PC with the Macrium Reflect bootable CD installed (assume the BIOS will boot from any CD/DVD before the hard drive)Ħ. Put in the new and larger hard drive into the PC and insure all electrical connections are solid.ĥ. Remove the old hard drive from the PC I want replaced.Ĥ. Insure I have the latest (or make one right then) image of the hard drive to be replaced on my external RDX hard drive.ģ. In fact, several backup programs, including my current favorite for imaging and cloning, EaseUS ToDo Backup Free, allow you to make small incremental image backups, recording how the contents of the drive change day to day.1. Imaging makes more sense for backup, because you can put multiple image backups onto one sufficiently large external hard drive. Then you swap the old drive for the new one, and restore the image to the new drive. I suppose you might choose imaging if you don’t have either an extra bay or a USB/SATA adapter, but you do have an external drive with sufficient free space. You plug a third, spare drive into the PC and create the image file on it. Imaging, on the other hand, requires you to do all of that twice. You plug in the new drive-either in a spare bay, or through a USB/SATA adapter-launch the cloning software, and do the job. If you’re moving to a new drive, cloning is the easier solution. If it’s the drive you boot from, only cloning or imaging can reliably make a working copy. But you can’t just drag and drop an operating system. Why not just drag and drop? That’s fine for an unbootable drive.
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