Hey guys, just a quick one (I hope) this time.

I'm finally getting my new hard drive tomorrow and having only just installed everything onto my new pc anyway a couple of months ago, I don't really want to go through reinstalling absolutely everything again. Now it's not a huge problem to do it, after all I don't have that much stuff on here deliberately, knowing I'd probably be getting the new drive, but I was wondering if imaging would be recommended, quick and easy? And does it mean I don't have to do any reinstallation of anything whatsoever?

And if this is easier/quicker than a simple start-from-scratch approach in my case, what imaging programs/guides would you recommend?

Thanks in advance!

Since the piece of hardware changing on your box is the hard drive, imaging would be a good option for you. It should be considerably quicker than reinstalling from scratch.

However, I've never done it, so I'm in no real position to offer advice. Sorry.

Im in the same boat with Satis. I've seen it done though but thats about it.

Well screw it lol. I gave it a go, spent 2.5 - 3 hours copying it with a decent looking program, it finishes, I switch off my pc, unplug the old hard drive... and get a message saying to insert a valid boot device or insert a bootable disc.

So I plugged the old one back in, formatted the new one via windows and have just reinstalled everything on the new hard drive using the old one as a 'live' back up and just copying stuff across.

heh...yea... that's what I would probably do. If your install is more than 6 months old, it's probably good to get a clean start anyway. Good effort though!