Windows 7 has a built-in tool for this. Search the start menu for "Backup and Restore", then click on "Create a system image". You'll need an external drive or some other location to save the image (You don't want to use the new drive for this). Note that you should shut down all non-essential programs as the image will contain only the data on the computer when the process was started.
Once that's done, shut down, swap to the new drive, and boot off a Windows 7 DVD or USB. You can restore the image to the new drive from there. To expand the drive when you're done, go into Disk Management, right click on the drive and expand it. ❧ Brian Mathis On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]>wrote: > My wife is getting a new 500G SSD to replace her 240G SSD, and is looking > to do so without having to reinstall. I'm a bit out of this, having not > needed to do so for some time; what's a good drive cloning program that > will either clone and expand the drive to full capacity, or clone it with > the free space left as unpartitioned space so that I can have Windows 7 > expand it the rest of the way for her? > > Thanks. My $work retention bonus came in a bit bigger than we were > expecting, so we went ahead and picked up some tech items we'd been wanting > for a while... in her case, just about all the components for a full gaming > rig rebuild. I do have to send the CPU back to Newegg, however... Intel i7 > proc with 6 cores, ran about $580... and they shipped it in the flimsy > little box inside one of those plastic envelopes. The packaging is all beat > to shit, and I don't doubt the chip took some hard knocks through the > plastic. Color me very displeased with their shipping method, there. > Everything else arrived in great packaging. > > -- > ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ > > "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we > are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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