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And with that i mean that i don't really want to install anything, but make a carbon copy of HD A to B. What would be the best way to do this?
Also HD A have some troubles with reallocated/bad sectors and i want to know if making the carbon copy its a bad idea compared to just reinstalling everything.
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You could probably burn a live CD of one of the available HDD ghosting programs and make a backup of HD A onto an external or something and then swap A with B and take the ghost you made and put it onto HD B.
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To be more specific, i need to transfer at least 300-320gb of data composed of installed games, drivers and stuff you have to install and write pomegranate in the windows registry, and i need to move them with windows registry intact, so those games and programs continue to work normally. (So most likely i will need to change drive letter assignation since C: its not windows 7 default partition but an old install of Windows XP i had for legacy)...
The more i try to think about it, the more my head hurt.
Edit:Saw the above link and i think i found what i need: Clone my HDD, its simple enough since i won't need a third HDD to do anything.
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The program I use may not need a third hard drive, just in my experience I've been using it on a laptop with one drive bay.
I don't know much about that program, but it looks promising. The way it's written, you should be able to do a direct copy.
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KK will try that one, i hope this HDD last long enough so my new one can arrive to do the migration/cloning.