I installed the drive as this picture shows.Īs you can see by the Windows Drive Manager, the original disk is drive 0 and the new 250 Gigabyte drive is unallocated space marked as Disk 1. Now I will shut the computer down and install the larger drive as a secondary drive to resume the cloning process. It is an 80 Gigabyte drive that only shows 74.5 gigs but that is just a disagreement in the terms that the drive manufacturers and Windows has had for a very long time. The Windows Drive Manager shows the hard drive that needs upgrading. Here is a picture of the 80 Gigabyte drive sitting lonely in this desktop. This review is being done on a desktop computer but the process can easily be duplicated on a laptop using an external drive case. For this review, we will only be upgrading it to a 250 Gigabyte drive to give it some breathing room. This computer is running Windows 7 on an 80 Gigabyte hard drive and 80 gigs just isn’t enough anymore and it needs to be upgraded. The easy solution is to clone your old, smaller drive to a new larger one using Acronis True Image, which is part of the Acronis Backup and Security Suite. You may need get a bigger drive that will hold all those files but do not want to reinstall Windows and all of the applications all over again. With video, music and data files getting so large and accumulating on your hard drive, filling up a small disk can be very easy. This review of Acronis True Image Home will show how easy it is to upgrade to a new hard drive using the Acronis Cloning utility that comes with the True Image program. Hard Drive Upgrade Using the Acronis True Image Clone Disk Utility Review of the Acronis True Image Hard Drive Cloning Process

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