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How To Backup HD and restore to different partition.

Does anyone know a way to backup a drive and restore it to a different drive partition? I want to backup a C:\ and D:\ drive in a laptop and place them on a different laptop with one large disk partitioned as c: and D: respectively.

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Dejan Vasiljevic

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Dejan;

I see your solution, but will that place an MBR and such onto the Partition HD? What about installed program and registry settings? Maybe below will help with question:

Laptop A: HD1 = C:\ bootable HD2 = D:\ non bootable but programs linked to c:\

Laptop B: HD = Partition 1 and Partition 2

Want to image/backup and place Laptop A: HD1 = c:\ bootable INTO Laptop B: HD = Partition 1

Want to image/backup and place Laptop A: HD2 = D:\ non bootable but linked to c:\ INTO Laptop B: HD = Partition 2

Thanks!

Dejan Vasiljevic

AC_Hawk,

You can just go to backup and restore, as I said, and do as advised on link, follow steps. The windows backup and restore is smart and it will automatically detect linked drivers and will create backup for You. You can go to other device, run restore and restore it from that backup file, and it will recognize Your drives and move files where they belongs. Don't worry about it. Just do as I told You.

Thanks,
D.

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AC_Hawk

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All three solutions are doable but in my case Windows Backup didn't work and I had to move on. Instead of one large drive with a partition of C:\ and D:\ as wanted, just purchased a second drive and used two small ones.

Dejan Vasiljevic

AC_Hawk,

Thanks for the reply, and points. All three, are nice, easy and simple. You've been just worried about it, because You've never done something like this, and You want to make sure that nothing goes wrong, it is normal. But at the end, it is simple and easy. Nothing to worry about.

Dejan.