Replacing main drive via cloning

[Cabalsan]

Quick question for experts so I dont have to search tooo long:

I have a system built using (2) 320Gb hard drives and 3 tuners. Running out of room due to QAM fiile size and was going to clone the Primary winXP32 main drive onto a new 1TB drive, and still have sec 320Gb for old stuff. That older Pri 320 will then get re-purposed on another pc for the kids.

Will SageTV 7.23 be OK doing this - cloning Pri and not a system level rebuild? Any problems I should be aware of?

Sage is installed on Pri with a link in the detailed setup to a folder on the second drive for recordings. Sage somehow balances where it sticks recording -some on Pri/some on Sec. I cant tell if there is a pattern, but never been a problem anyways...

I havent done this in awhile (several yrs) and I cant remember if anything negative happened after the upgrade.

Thanks for your help.

[gplasky]

You should be fine. It's going into the same system. Nothing really changes from the Sage perspective. Whatever cloning software you use you probably want the original partition size (320GB) to take up all of the 1 TB drive. (So it is just a "C" drive) If you end up with a 320 GB partition you would need to create another partition on the 1 TB for the rest of the drive and then you need to watch if the drive letters change.

Gerry

[rtrski]

I did this some time ago (Sage 6.6) with no issues; can't think of why Sage7 would care more. Had a 40GB system/programs drive (circa 2003 Seagate hardware retasked as a Vista OS drive...figured it would be plenty large and all games and data would go elsewhere) that was continually running at < 5GB free, so couldn't defrag, and it was showing a lot of SMART errors. I used the Active@ boot CD utility to boot, ran an image onto a new 1TB drive, swapped, and was fine.

After I started back up with the new drive in place I created a separate data partition on the remainder of the drive (truncating the system partition to about 100GB). Or at least I think that was the sequence...maybe the Active@ utilities asked me the size of the partition to create, or created an idential 40GB partition out of the 1TB which I later 'extended' to 100GB out of the 1 TB. Regardless, it was pretty much easy and hassle-free, which really surprised me, frankly. I expected something heinous to go wrong, and I'm not usually disappointed in those expectations when I make major changes like that.

[tmiranda]

I did this about a year ago and it worked fine. I used Acronis TruImage and it went off without a hitch.

[Cabalsan]

I ended up playing hard drive roulette in the house with Acronis v7.

Turned the original main 320Gb into a new 1Tb, then moved 320Gb to second drive for old videos, decomissioned older library 320Gb drive.

Worked just fine. :-]