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Originally Posted by hwheeler43
 You could create an image on an external hard drive. Include creating a bootable cd and then put the new internal in your machine and boot from the cd to restore the image to the new hard drive. I know you can do this with Acronis. I have done it before. |
I think this solution would get you where you need to go. First you create an image of your current C:\ drive on an external USB drive. Then you create a bootable CD (I imagine this function is built into Acronis) which allows you to boot up into the Acronis application. Then you replace your c:\ drive with the new one and boot off of the CD. At that point you restore the image from your USB drive onto your new C:\ drive. For a Notebook PC this would seem to be the steps needed to replace the internal C:\ drive without reloading the operating systems etc.
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