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    Upgrading Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by sdspeedbump, Feb 4, 2012.

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    I want to migrate my 500GB HD to a 750GB one. What is the best tool to transfer my partitions (including the recovery partition) to the new HD?
     
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    ThatOldGuy Notebook Virtuoso

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    irishsumo Notebook Consultant

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    Depends what kit you already have - if you have an external drive and a flash drive, there are plenty of programs out there that will allow you to clone your existing drive and restore to a new hard drive. I use Paragon Free Backup & Restore, though Clonezilla is also a popular one. Create the backup image to your external drive, create the boot media on the flash drive, swap them over and restore onto the new drive.
     
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    Thanks, irishsumo! Clonezilla worked out great!
     
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    Remember to extend the partition to fill all the available space on the new drive, or shrink the C partition and create a data partition.
     
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