[Ham-Computers] Copy OS?

[Phil]

Yes, you should be able to do that with some "Drive cloning software".  
I use the free version of Acronis available on the Western Digital 
site.  At least one of the drives needs to be a Western Digital drive 
for the free version to work.

As a side note.  This machine came with a 1TB "C" drive 4 years ago.  I 
cloned that drive to a 3TB "C" drive and installed it.  I also have a 
4TB "D" drive I put in this machine and two 3TB external drives that are 
connected 24/7 (this machine is on the hubs 24/7, my "share size" is 
about 6.5TB).  I also have 8 additional outboard external drives in 
sizes 3-4TB that serve to keep TWO complete backups of all 4 active drives.

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On 7/25/2015 5:36 AM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> I have a 4 GB primary hard drive.  About 1/3 is OS, the other 1/3 e-mail.
> Misc files take up all but 400 MB.
>
> Can I copy the entire drive to my archival drive which has many tens of GB
> of space, put in a larger C: drive, then copy eveything, OS and all, back to
> the new large C: drive and expect it to run?
>
> Kurt
>
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