Solved To Clone or not to clone?

[cfourkays]

I have my Vista Ultimate on a Seagate 300G SATA.
Been using it since Jan, 07, and its getting kind of clogged.
Installed a new 500G I'll use as boot primary, its in and formatted.

If I clone the entire mess over, I'll just bring the pieces over to a larger drive.

I'd like to just change the boot order and install Vista like new than move and install programs and files.

Anyone see any problem with activation or my plan?
Thanks, Pete

 

[Brink]

Hi Pete,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

If you just want to copy what you have to the new hard drive, then a clone would be the easiest way of doing this.


Doing a clean install on the new drive will get rid of the junk that you do not want, but it is more work of course.

Either way, since it is a new hard drive that Vista is on, you may end up having to do a phone activation. This will show you how if you need to. It's easy.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84488-activate-vista-phone.html

It's your choice, but I do not see a problem with either way.

Shawn

 

[cfourkays]

Thanks, Shawn.
I'll go the clean route.
I've called MS before with no problems but never on a Vista install.

 

[Brink]

Your welcome Pete.