[wootwoot]

Hi People
I got a few HDDs and my main sata HDD has a massive crack on the front of it were the sata plugs into it, Because its like that the cable allways falls out, Its only a 320gig from memery I have a 500gig spare that I want to replace it with but I was told that i need to make a disc image to change them over, but i dont have the orignal vista install disc , I only have the upgrade dvd, do u know if theres any way around this putting a new hdd in were i dont have to buy a new vista os dvd, when the cable falls out it doesnt boot up i goto keep changing the plug on the mother board untill it finds were the boot is, ifanybody knows were i can get some info on this is or if anybody has done a change would be great, cheers

[MJM]

If this is the drive your Windows is on you will need to create a backup image. Not sure how compatible this stuff is with Vista

I'd recommend DriveImage XML since it's free and works (even with third parties). Now however there is one issue, you'd need a boot CD. I'd tell you to follow the link at the bottom of that page, but I doubt BartPE works with Vista, even less so with one of the prebuilt custom installs.
There's plenty of software that can do this, but most of it costs. I bought DriveImage 7 ages ago.
The best thing to do is to insert your second HDD as well, create a backup image of the original and then from the program tell it to restore to the second. Remove first, insert second into master position.

[wootwoot]

thanks man,
your so right with those pre installed packages!!! can never do a thing ot them if they crash, im sure they build them just so u have to take them back to them when they crash...thanks again ill try today