I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250 to
500.

"morgs" <morgs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
> digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
> 250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
> info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250
> to
> 500.

Use a program like Acronis True Image to make an image of the 250, swap the
drives and load the image back onto the 500.

Hi there.

There's a utility called BootIt NG from Terabyte Unlimited which is pretty
good for this kind of task. Basically you would install both HDD's on your
desktop and command the utility to perform a partition copy. It's farly
simple and the support is very good. More info at
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com.

-Paulo

"morgs" <morgs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
> digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
> 250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
> info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250
> to
> 500.

some new HDDs come with software that will allow you to transfer the data.
but other programs seem to do a better job.
some like Acronis, some Ghost
there are a lot of choices, have fun! LOL

--
A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
CarGodZeroOne********.com
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"morgs" <morgs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
> digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
> 250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
> info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250
> to
> 500.

Seagate has a program called Disc wizard that will clone your 250 gig drive
to the 500 gig drive. Each partition on the new drive will automatically be
double in size. The software is similar if not identical to the Acronis
software. You will see the Acronis name when you run the software. You can
download the Disc Wizard software from the Seagate web site for free. It
will only run when one of the discs being used is by Seagate, which you said
it is.

Stuart

"morgs" <morgs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
> digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
> 250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
> info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250
> to
> 500.

Visit the `Backup and Restore Center` and create a `Windows Complete PC
Backup and Restore` image

"morgs" <morgs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0FE07DB9-4A15-4D2B-B0E2-0CAC5CD11A93@microsoft.com...
I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250 to
500.

"Stuart Sabatini" wrote:

> Seagate has a program called Disc wizard that will clone your 250 gig drive
> to the 500 gig drive. Each partition on the new drive will automatically be
> double in size. The software is similar if not identical to the Acronis
> software. You will see the Acronis name when you run the software. You can
> download the Disc Wizard software from the Seagate web site for free. It
> will only run when one of the discs being used is by Seagate, which you said
> it is.
>
> Stuart
>
> "morgs" <morgs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0FE07DB9-4A15-4D2B-B0E2-0CAC5CD11A93@microsoft.com...
> >I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western
> > digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to a 500gig Seagate, reformat the
> > 250gig and move it to another older xp machine and am not able to find any
> > info on how-to-do this procedure of moving all the contents from the 250
> > to
> > 500.
>
> Thank you so much Stuart, this worked like a charm had a bit of trouble at first but when I changed my "power saving"settings all was well, thanks again.