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alucke

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I got a new harddrive for my wife's puter. Before i install it, was wondering if I could install it as a slave. Then copy windows files to the new harddrive, then switch the harddrive to the master. Will that work? Or do i have to reinstall windows on the new harddrive?

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Cloning the hard drive will do fine. Popular picks are Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image.

If you get your self Acronis True Image, you can even make a recovery partition on your drive so when Windows stops working you can recover it in a few minutes (depending on size of the data and speed of the computer).

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If one of the drives is made by either Maxtor or Seagate, you should be able to use Seagate DiscWizard (licenced by Acronis) for free, to clone your drive to the new one. This could be done either with the two drives attached to a different computer (either internally or with enclosures), or from the PC of the drive you want to clone.

http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/...ardSetup.en.exe

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