Upgrade Hard Disk in Vista

[Guest]

Hi.

I want to replace my existing main internal hdd with a faster, higher
capacity model.
I'm aware there are likely to be be licencing problems after a disk clone.
Will someone please give me a link for the micorosoft recommended process to
follow.

Thanks

 

[Richard G. Harper]

There is no recommended process. Personally, I'd use whatever utility the
drive manufacture offers for "cloning" the old hard drive to the new one,
then when asked to re-activate just call the telephone number and it will
take only a few minutes.

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[Gary G. Little]

I recently upgraded my HDD to 160GB. I used Complete PC Backup to image the
existing drive to an external HDD, installed the new drive, booted to the
Vista DVD, selected System Repair from the install environment and restored
the image to the new disc. Maybe it was because of using Vista to image and
restore, but I did not have to call to re-activate.

Gary

 

[Rutetuti]

I recently replaced my older ATA drive with a larger, SATA, drive and used
Acronis True Image. No problems Vista but Adobe Acrobat (V7) detected the
change of drive and I had to re-register that.

Good luck.

 

[LVTravel]

I wasn't concerned with reactivation issues, but rather if I could use
my Win7 PRO DVD to boot and access the the System Recovery Options on my
Vista O/S. Please read my original post, thank you.

No.

You need to contact Dell and see if you can get a recovery disk from them.
Should be able to with just a little cost.