My desktop had gone through a few changes over the years, moving from XP to XP + Vista dual boot and now to Win.old + Vista + Win7 dual boot. However, it has resulted in the boot.ini (or whatever it is Win7, system partition?) residing on disk 1 (250GB), the OS on disk 2 (500GB) and data on disk 3 (250GB). I want to replace the lot with 2*1TB and just Win7, but how? Is it just a case of doing a system backup of Win7, changing the disks and restoring or will the restore want the same 3 disk config back?http://pdkm.spaces.live.com/

I think you need to create a system image and then restore it to the new hard-drives. Usually the System Image is able to detect what is necessary. Perhaps the data you should just copy. You have to do a bit of trial and error there. But system image should be able to do it. If encounter any problems then try something similar to norton ghost. In addition you can try WIAK. The boot manager you can edit from bcdedit.exe. Please do not forget to select the best answer if it helps you! The Ultimate computer newbie guide since the discovery of spoon feeding! The Computer Manual

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums. You may achieve it by restoring your computer from a system image backup. For more information, please refer to Restore your computer from a system image backup and Back up your programs, system settings, and files. Meanwhile, a work around is to as capture *.wim and re-deployment the system. Please refer to Step-by-Step: Basic Windows Deployment for IT Professionals and Capture an Image. Best Regards Magon Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I think you need to create a system image and then restore it to the new hard-drives. Usually the System Image is able to detect what is necessary. Perhaps the data you should just copy. You have to do a bit of trial and error there. But system image should be able to do it. If encounter any problems then try something similar to norton ghost. In addition you can try WIAK. The boot manager you can edit from bcdedit.exe. Please do not forget to select the best answer if it helps you! The Ultimate computer newbie guide since the discovery of spoon feeding!

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