restoring system to older hard drive

[miperelman]

I have an old 60 gig hard drive.  My C drive has 51 gigs.  Do a recovery file to an external hard drive & restore my new system to my old drive?

Could I make a recovery CD & then restore everything to the old drive.  The idea would be when I travel abroad, I could take the old drive & not worry about having some malware mess up my newer drive?

Thanks.

Michael

[topmahof Community Moderator]

You might have a little problem with activation being that you are going to have the same os on 2 different drives.  What os are you using?

[miperelman]

Here is my plan:  Do a R&R backup on an external hard dirve.  Put the old hard drive in my computer (XP on an X61t).  Load the most recent R&R software.  Then run the R&R from my external had drive.  Will that work?

[topmahof Community Moderator]

The concept is sound.  It should work okay.  You're cutting it a little close as for space because of the way the mfgrs measure hard disc space.  That 60 gb drive is actually about 55 gb technically, so as long as your C drive is 51 like you say, you shouldn't have a problem.

Dave