If I bought a new internal hard drive, can I transfer windows hard drive fom that came from the computer to the new, or do I have to buy another software package full of windows?

What should I do to get windows vista on the new hard drive on the old, because I would like to upgrade to windows 7 since vista when I transferred transversely to the new.

Your license of Vista will be OK to reinstall it on a hard drive replacement on the same computer.

Hard disk manufacturers provide normally cloning software to do what you want to do.

Look at your new Hard Drive manufacturer's Web site.

Or there are 3rd Party software (cost the same money if): http://www.acronis.com.au/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

For any question on Windows 7:

http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/Windows7

Link above is Windows 7 Forum for questions on Windows 7.

Windows 7 questions should be directed to the it.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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