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upgrade c drive toarger one
Hello
I have an optiplex 960 tower with a 80gig c drive and it also has the dell recover partition on it. Is there a way to upgrade the c drive to a 1tb and keep the recovery partiton intact along with the boot option for it.
Or do i need to purchase another copy of windows 7 (the key).
Thanks in advance for any help.
jfmy787
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May 17th, 2017 07:00
Ok u will look at Macrium Reflect .
ejn63
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May 17th, 2017 06:00
The recovery partition is old enough that it's just about useless now - you can make your own recovery image to an external drive. You can also clone the existing drive to the new one (you'll need a second SATA cable so you can connect both drives to do the job).
The free edition of Macrium Reflect can do both jobs.
jfmy787
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May 17th, 2017 10:00
I just finished. I went from a 80gig to a 500gig, Worked perfectly. I still get windows boot option to the recovery partition and they seem to be in the same places. Just one is larger than the other two.