suggestions for migrating a windows 7 install to a new 4K sector disk

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Published on 2010-05-09T22:34:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 22:39 UTC
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Hi,

I'm looking to upgrade the disk on a windows 7 box to a new larger drive.

In the past for such migrations I'd just hook both drives up and use a linux boot disk and use dd to copy from one disk to the next... boot up the new drive & expand the partition.

The drive I just purchased however is a western digital using 4k sectors... not sure if there'd be any complications using my old method moving from a 512b sector drive.

Current plan is to try the migration by doing a win7 system image backup to an external drive... then restore the image to the new drive via system restore boot disk. Any suggestions or recommendations on how to best complete this migration would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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