IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

I want to change my harddrive and I was wondering if any software like Acronis True Image Home 2011 will let me copy everthing to a different harddrive and not have to reactivate my copy of windows 7 Pro,because I don't want to have to reinstall everthing over.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks

Re: IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

true image will do a a true image ;), and you can do sector by sector if you want, 1:1 copy.

as far as re-activation goes, that depends, every 3-4 hardware change = re-activation. so if your number is up, a new hard drive can triger activation.

Re: IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

Has anyone done with windows 7 64bit and it saves your activation plus work perfect like it did on the other harddrive .I know I used to doit with windows XP and had sucess

Re: IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

again, there is no "save activation" option, if hard drive is different, it counts as one "strike" towards your activation.

Vista, 7 etc.. has a certain amount of changes that are permitted, before it will ask for reactivation. if you used up all your allowed changes, it will ask you to reactive its that simple.

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I used Acronis*Migrate*Easy 7.0 and it worked like a charm,on my windows 7 Pro 64bit.People were saying I would need a boot CD for it to boot up right on the new harddrive ,but with Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 I just copied it to the harddrve and no problems .Activation was fine on my new harddrive, my games still worked fine even tho I install them from my D drive and my old hardrive will still boot up and activation is fine on it .But I don't need it so I just made it a extra drive to put downloads in.

Re: IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

Jesus we really need to stop URL's for these low post accounts, these spambots are getting ridiculous.

Re: IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

You don't need to do a true image, but you need to get the important things right. For example I use Windows Home Server V1 and it doesn't do a true image, but it will let me back up a pc, yank the hard drive, put in a new one of different make/model/size and restore to it, and I do not need to reactivate.

Re: IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT WILL DO A TRUE IMAGE
 

I used acronis true image WD edition (free) to transfer os to ssd, as long as you have a corresponding brand drive in your system somewhere the free versions work, you don't have to be transferring from or to whichever brand.

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Sweet. Didn't know Acronis did a WD version for free. ::):