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Move Vista To Another Hard Drive

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by blackdiamond

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Hey,

Would like to move Vista to a larger hard drive. Anyone familiar with this?

Vista Enterprise is what I am running. If nothing else I will just install on the new Hard Drive and copy my stuff over, was just trying to avoid reloading if possible, you know how it is. :-)

Thanx

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by ic-it

the new drive. If no CD go to the manufacturer's web site and download their tools.
Basically you will clone/copy the drive.

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