Will my older non-AV disk images work after I install a new AV hard drive?

I'm going to replace an older Toshiba 230Gb notebook drive with a 1Tb WD drive that has Advanced Format (AV).

I'm not sure if the older Toshiba drive uses AV or not...or if that even matters.

What I plan on doing is cloning the Toshiba drive onto my new WD 1Tb drive using an external enclosure, then swapping them. I'm using Windows 7 Pro with SP1.

Will there be any issues?

I recently backed up the notebook by making an image of the entire Toshiba drive. Will that still be useable once I install the new WD drive with AV?

Thanks

Brian
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This is some info on the installed Toshiba drive:

TOSHIBA MK2556GSY
Manufacturer TOSHIBA
Heads 16
Cylinders 30,401
Tracks 7,752,255
Sectors 488,392,065
SATA type SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number Z07JTFE9T
Firmware Version Number LH003D
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 866 times
Power On Time 32408.7 days
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 232 GB
Real size 250,059,350,016 bytes
RAID Type None
S.M.A.R.T
Status Good
Temperature 39 °C
Temperature Range OK (less than 50 °C)
S.M.A.R.T attributes
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 00CD2F91
Size 611 MB
Used Space 588 MB (96%)
Free Space 23.8 MB (4%)
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 2CD0DE50
Size 232 GB
Used Space 188 GB (81%)
Free Space 43 GB (19%)

 

One issue I do see is the amount of free space on the Toshiba so, moving to the larger drive will help. Make sure your computer will support the 1 TB drive.

I had a situation where I wanted to "clone" two System hard drives on to one larger drive which I partitioned into two drives. The boot information didn't copy correctly during cloning. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard's "Copy Partition" feature to, finally, accomplish the task. MiniTool correctly copied the boot information and I'm able to dual-boot from the new larger drive.

 

I'm thinking the older 'drive images' would work OK. I'll make a new one (or two) after I get the new drive installed so the older images won't be of much use anyway.