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Brett
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Hello

I have a PC with windows installed on it. The HDD is only a small one. I have a larger drive I'd like to replace that with but I really CBA doing a fresh install of windows plus everything else. Could I get away with just dragging across the entire contents of the drive to the other or taking an image or something along those lines? Not sure what's best.

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Interesting question.
Never thought of doing that although personally, I think I would just do do a fresh install.
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Just use a drive clone program like clonezilla, it's on the ultimate boot cd and probably others too
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An image/clone using whatever program will do the job fine.
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Not reckon I could just get away with using synctoy? If not, any dead simple clone software you can suggest? Less clicking the better, as you can tell I'm going a bit lazy on this one
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Sorry, just realised Sam suggested Clonezilla
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There's Acronis TrueImage I think. Not free but it could be
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Out of curiosity, why can't I just literally select all and copy over?
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Because it won't work, basically.

Long answer - you won't be able to copy files in use by Windows or any "protected" OS files, and even if you could you won't be able to boot Windows due to a lack of boot sector info on the new drive.

In short - just use a cloning program that copies sectors rather than just files.
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Acronis True Image is the best
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Ok, so I did a clone onto another drive. It boots as such, but after the Windows loading screen it reboots
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Safe mode?
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Hangs then reboots once it's loading mup.sys or something like that.

 
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