Computers Hard Drive Imaging

KCFalcon59 · 01-11-2013, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by asdf

I used the image backup that comes with windows 7 recently to replace a failing HD...worked like a charm

I did the same. Worked much better than I expected.

**mikeyis4dcats.** · 01-11-2013, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by KCFalcon59

I did the same. Worked much better than I expected.

how did it work, can you clone directly to the new drive and just swap them out?

KCFalcon59 · 01-11-2013, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

how did it work, can you clone directly to the new drive and just swap them out?

I used Windows 7 backup & restore to backup data and create a system image to an external drive. Then I replaced drive. Booted with windows 7 disk and chose restore from system image. Took a little while but worked great.

The only thing I had to be sure of is that the HD I replaced the bad one with was the same size or larger. Mine was a 500GB drive so I just went with the same size.

It was flawless.