Installing New 1Tb Hard drive

I received a Seagate 1TB HD for Christmas and was wondering if there was a program I could use to "Ghost" a bootable version of my OS on the new drive to take advantage of the increased space I now have. I have a 500 gig drive installed now, but the boot partion is only 200 gigs, and I'm down to 35 gigs of free space. That drive has 3 partions that I used to have a triple boot system set up on. Since I dont use the other partions anymore, I would like to clone the bootable Win 7 ultimate partion onto the new drive and use the whole 1Tb drive as the boot drive. Then i can format the old drive and use it as a back-up drive. Any suggestions?Oh, I no longer have access to the original DVD installion disk so reloading is not an option.

 

Thank You very much!! I will D/L the tools and check out the white paper on the procedure.:-D

 

Well, it's all finished, thanks for the link to Seagates Disk Wizard. I took the old drive which was 500 gigs, (partitioned into 3 separate drives). I used the Disk Manager in Administrator tools of Win-7 Ultimate 64bit and removed the 2 unused partitions creating 1 unallocated space, leaving the original Primary Boot partition intact. Then I D/L'ed the Seagate Disk Wizard (153 mb.) installed it on my computer. I shut down, Installed the 1TB in the case and rebooted my PC. After it booted, i ran the Wizard, And selected the manual setup. I set the new drive to it's maximum size and ran the utility. After it rebooted, it came up in a DOS type screen, and copied my Disk image from the old to new drive. After it completed i rebooted to make sure my old drive was still booting OK. After it rebooted I shutdown again, and switched the SATA cables for the 2 drives. I rebooted, selected the 1TB drive as Primary Boot disk and the system booted perfectly. I then used the Disk Manager utility in Windows and took the 279 Gigs of unallocated disk space from the old drive and made it active as a Simple Volume. Now I have a huge drive, and still have the original drive capable of booting the system if I have any problems. It worked perfectly.:-D

 

I wanted to add my thank you for the detailed explanation of your steps.

I'm glad to see the free Seagate/Acronis is fairly straightforward--good to know.