Moving OS to larger HDD

[hapzfl]

I intend to move my Win7-64 to a larger HDD but I do not like to just copy the whole old HDD to the new HDD. And the option to resize partitions proportionally is not what I want either. I want (almost) total freedom for the patrition sizes on the new larger HDD.

I want to use the following procedure instead: copy individual partitions (instead of the whole disk) and resize each of them individually.

I assume that after all of these individual partition operations are finished I will have a fully functional and bootable new Win7 HDD once I remove my old HDD?

[Mech_An]

Most likely Windows will boot correctly.

But I would recommend to create Windows Repair CD prior to migration:
* Click Start, All Programs, Maintenance, Create a System Repair Disc
* Insert a CD/DVD into the drive and press Create disc

If there will be any issues booting from new drive, boot from created Repair CD and perform Startup repair.

[xxJackxx]

Based on my experiences I would just copy the whole drive to the new one. Then you just use Disk Management to individually resize the partitions as you wish. Any time I have moved to a larger disk I just pick the partition in Disk Management and expand any size up to the maximum available disk space.