Hi, until recently i was dual booting XP and Vista on the same HDD, on 2 partitions. A couple of days ago i bought a 2nd 40gb Hdd and re-installed Vista on that and merged the 2 partitions back into one...

Today I got a 60gb Seagate HDD and I was thinking about swapping it for the 40gb...

Can i use the Vista backup image program to copy the 40gb drive and put the image on the 60gb drive, saving me the hassle of re-installing Vista for the 2nd time in a couple of days???

Is this possible?

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D_ Do you mean mirror?

How To Mirror the System and Boot Partition (RAID1) in Windows 2000

No JB, I believe it works like norton ghost, it takes a snapshot of the hard drive so that you can just put the whole image back, but i dont know the specifics of the Vista one, how it works or how to do it

Vista backup does not backup the Windows system files.
That is why Vista has the System Restore Function.

I would not reinstall Vista to the new drive and waste an activation of Vista just to move the operating system to a bigger drive unless the old drive was failing. Also, the bigger the drive that the operating system is on the slower the operating system will work.

Ok cheers, something new learnt again!