New hard drive - best way to clone

[chandra]

Hi

I have a 1TB 5400rpm that I'm upgrading to a new 1TB 7200rpm

The drive has 3 partitions (W7 system partition and 2 non-system partitions)

I want to just duplicate the whole drive to the new drive so I can boot up and look like nothing has changed at all even though it's a totally new drive.

So my plan is:

1) Remove the old hard drive from the PC and replace it with the new unformatted hard drive.
2) Put the old hard drive in a usb enclosure, connect it to the PC, and then boot IFD
3) Use IFD to do a raw sector-by-sector copy of the old drive from the USB to the new system drive.
4) Reboot with the new drive and everything is good?

So is this the best way to do it? Any issues I should know about if I do it this way? Or is there a better way?

Please let me know, thanks.

[TeraByte Support]

You could do it that way - just ensure you detach the USB drive and don't
attach it again. Maybe instead, do an entire drive copy, use the "Change
Disk ID & GUIDS" option (that only works if not a raw copy "copy unused
sectors" should not be checked).



"chandra" wrote in message news:9191@public.image...

Hi

I have a 1TB 5400rpm that I'm upgrading to a new 1TB 7200rpm

The drive has 3 partitions (W7 system partition and 2 non-system partitions)

I want to just duplicate the whole drive to the new drive so I can boot up
and look like nothing has changed at all even though it's a totally new
drive.

So my plan is:

1) Remove the old hard drive from the PC and replace it with the new
unformatted hard drive.
2) Put the old hard drive in a usb enclosure, connect it to the PC, and then
boot IFD
3) Use IFD to do a raw sector-by-sector copy of the old drive from the USB
to the new system drive.
4) Reboot with the new drive and everything is good?

So is this the best way to do it? Any issues I should know about if I do it
this way? Or is there a better way?

Please let me know, thanks.

[chandra]

Thanks for the tip about using the "Change Disk ID & GUIDS"

What if I do the raw copy, and then just wipe the old hard drive? Would I then be able to use it as an external drive at some point if I wanted to? or would it still have the same ID/GUIDS and cause problems?

Thanks

[TeraByte Support]

yeah, just do ever boot with both attached or attach it while windows is
running or it can make it unbootable when you may not want it to. So you
could just copy, remove, then once working and all good on the new drive,
boot back to say BIBM and wipe that old drive.

"chandra" wrote in message news:9195@public.image...

Thanks for the tip about using the "Change Disk ID & GUIDS"

What if I do the raw copy, and then just wipe the old hard drive? Would I
then be able to use it as an external drive at some point if I wanted to? or
would it still have the same ID/GUIDS and cause problems?

Thanks

[chandra]

I'll give it a shot. Thanks.