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If running Windows 10 or 11 simply use the Windows 7 backup option, create a system image onto an external hard drive and then create a recovery disc (CD is what I normally use). Then install your new drive, boot from the recovery CD and restore from the system image. It will put the image back onto the new drive using the same amount of space the original drive was (500GB)... but you can then use the Windows HD utility to expand that partition to fit the new drive.
You most likely will have to go through the process of reactivating Windows again since they detect a HD exchange as a major component update.

[QUOTE="TPerry, post: 1580082, member: 30804"] If running Windows 10 or 11 simply use the Windows 7 backup option, create a system image onto an external hard drive and then create a recovery disc (CD is what I normally use). Then install your new drive, boot from the recovery CD and restore from the system image. It will put the image back onto the new drive using the same amount of space the original drive was (500GB)... but you can then use the Windows HD utility to expand that partition to fit the new drive. You most likely will have to go through the process of reactivating Windows again since they detect a HD exchange as a major component update. [/QUOTE]

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