With the DVD of Vista (or Vista installed on your PC) you can "clone" a partition on your hard drive. This can be very beneficial if you want to change your hard drive without having to reinstall everything without losing any data.
To begin, we need:
- your new drive is connected as a slave (if an IDE hard drive) or simply connected to the SATA hard disks or in USB and detected by Windows.
- free space on the destination partition is greater than or equal to the space of the partition source.
If Vista is not installed on your PC or you want to copy the partition on which Vista (or another operating system) is installed, it requires in addition that:
- you have a Vista DVD.
- your BIOS is configured to boot from the CD: Change the order of boot devices
- destination partition has the same properties as the source partition (file system, logical / extended and active / inactive) in case you want to copy a system partition (ie where an operating system is installed).
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