I want to spend my hard drive of 160 GB to 500 GB.

I have Vista Home Premium and want to transfer everything to the new drive.  I have a portable HARD drive for backup, so I can transfer files in this way, but how do I put Vista on a new HARD drive? I have the Back-Up/recovery discs for my computer. Would this work to load Vista? The original Vista authorization number would work with the new HARD drive? I want to upgrade to Windows 7 at some point, but I'm not ready to convert everything immediately. Thanks for all your help!

Manufacturers of hard driver usually the cloning software to do the complete job to move the files and the operating system on a new hard drive.

Alternatively, use your recovery disks to reinstall Vista.

Means recovery disks, ones the manufacturer gave you at the purchase or you asked to do.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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