Moving windows 8 to another drive

[Peter Roe[_2_]]

I have windows 7 on a sata drive, dual booting with windows 8 on a spare
ide drive while I tried it out. Now I want to move windows 8 to the
faster sata drive, keeping the dual boot function.

Anybody know whether I can reinstall windows 8 on a new partition on the
sata drive using the same license key; or whether it'd be better to do
some complicated Acronis disk clone thing?

Thoughts gratefully received...

[Ken Blake[_4_]]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:28:32 +0000, Peter Roe >
wrote:

> I have windows 7 on a sata drive, dual booting with windows 8 on a spare
> ide drive while I tried it out. Now I want to move windows 8 to the
> faster sata drive, keeping the dual boot function.
>
> Anybody know whether I can reinstall windows 8 on a new partition on the
> sata drive using the same license key;


Yes, you can.


> or whether it'd be better to do
> some complicated Acronis disk clone thing?


That might be easier.


--
Ken Blake

[Dave-UK]

"Peter Roe" > wrote in message ...
> I have windows 7 on a sata drive, dual booting with windows 8 on a spare
> ide drive while I tried it out. Now I want to move windows 8 to the
> faster sata drive, keeping the dual boot function.
>
> Anybody know whether I can reinstall windows 8 on a new partition on the
> sata drive using the same license key; or whether it'd be better to do
> some complicated Acronis disk clone thing?
>
> Thoughts gratefully received...

You can install Windows 8 as many times as you like on as many disks as you like
with the same key, but only one installation can be 'active' at any one time.
By 'active' I mean booted up and able to phone home to Microsoft.

[Gadfly[_2_]]

Just make a system image of the Win8 drive using Win7's Backup and Restore
and restore it to the SATA drive using the Win7 boot disc and remove the IDE
drive.
The drive letters will remain the same. Enter msconfig in the Start =>
Search... box and look under the Boot menu item to see the boot paths.

A change of hard drive does not force a product reactivation, but a new
motherboard does. -

Product Activation - http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ProductActivation.htm

"Peter Roe" > wrote in message
...
>I have windows 7 on a sata drive, dual booting with windows 8 on a spare
>ide drive while I tried it out. Now I want to move windows 8 to the faster
>sata drive, keeping the dual boot function.
>
> Anybody know whether I can reinstall windows 8 on a new partition on the
> sata drive using the same license key; or whether it'd be better to do
> some complicated Acronis disk clone thing?
>
> Thoughts gratefully received...