I am about to replace 640GB 5400 rpm hdd with 1TB 7200 rpm hybrid drive.
My plan is to use a hardware device I have to clone the hdd.
I expect this will result in an empty partition of say 360GB at the end of new hdd.
The present drive is partitioned thus 20GB/100MB/104GB/472GB
( Recovery / System / C: / D: )
I want to partition the new drive to 20GB/100MB/200GB/rest
i.e. expand C: from 104G to about 200G and then D: will fill the rest.
The present Drive D: contains approx. 260GB of data.
Having cloned the HDD, I plan to create a new 80GB spacer partition (from the 360GB empty) named say G:
The remainder of the 360GB empty partition will be H: (280GB)
Then I will copy contents of D: to H:
Then I will remove partition D: and expand C: to 200GB
The remaining 376GB of what was D: will again be created as new D:
I will then copy H: back to D:
Deleting G; and H: will permit the extension of D:
Mission accomplished.
All this seems relatively straightforward but there is a nagging in the back of my head.
Can anyone see a flaw in my plan? Or is there a better way to do this.
TIA
Len