rsbriggs
06-29-2005, 09:11 PM
I'm looking for some software that can upgrade a Hard drive image and I'm wondering if anyone out there has recommendations.
Here's the problem I need to solve. I have a couple of crunchers that have licensed copies of Windows on small hard-drives (4 to 9 GB). In order to sell these, I need to upgrade them to more like 80GB drives. I need to transfer the current drive image from the smaller drive to the larger, so I can just swap in the larger drive and reboot...
I can't just re-install Windows on the new drives, at least one of them has a custom driver that's installed but isn't easily replaceable, so a reinstall isn't feasible. ( And my experience in the past has been that attempting to re-install and re-register the Windows operating system, different drive but same computer, results in a message along the lines of "This copy of windows has already been installed on a computer" )
Does anyone out there have experience with upgrading hard drives like this and software used to do it?
Here's the problem I need to solve. I have a couple of crunchers that have licensed copies of Windows on small hard-drives (4 to 9 GB). In order to sell these, I need to upgrade them to more like 80GB drives. I need to transfer the current drive image from the smaller drive to the larger, so I can just swap in the larger drive and reboot...
I can't just re-install Windows on the new drives, at least one of them has a custom driver that's installed but isn't easily replaceable, so a reinstall isn't feasible. ( And my experience in the past has been that attempting to re-install and re-register the Windows operating system, different drive but same computer, results in a message along the lines of "This copy of windows has already been installed on a computer" )
Does anyone out there have experience with upgrading hard drives like this and software used to do it?