Advice on replacing HDDs
I'm about to change the two internal HDDs of my desktop, because they're already five years old, and I don't want to wait for them to crash unexpectedly (and the other one is getting full). Theres a double-boot system disc (video partition and audio partition, XP SP3) and a data/audio disc.
I have a back-up drive of them both (using Acronis), but I'm thinking about using my external eSATA dock to make the system-HDD ready to run before I even install it.
Do you know if I need to partition the new HDD in advance when I set Acronis to copy the system on the new drive? Also, if I partition the new HDD, I propably need to copy each partition at a time?? Or is Acronis capable of copying both partitions (and partitioning the new HDD) when launched from the other?
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