How do I use Acronis True Image 2009 to clone a bigger hard drive?

I want to replace my current 80GB internal hard drive on my Dell Optiplex210L.





How do I go about Cloning my current disk onto a new 500GB internal drive, and remove my old drive and replace it with the 500GB drive?





Please I need fairly detailed instructions.





Thank you.How do I use Acronis True Image 2009 to clone a bigger hard drive?
You'll need the bootable disk to do this and an external hard drive to store the image. If you haven't made it yet, now's the time.





Proceed as you would for a normal image but back it up to the external hard drive (EHD).





After making you image, you will have to open your machine, replace the old drive with the new one, preferably, move the old drive into a another slot if you have one (and the cables and power supply to handle it) you can always just leave it there place the new in another slot and use the existing calbe to connect to the new drive, reconnect cables and close you computer.





Ensure your EHD is connected and boot from the bootable disk. Restore the image to the new disk.





Run the program and restore to the new disk, Acronis will see the different sizes and post a message about 80GB---%26gt;500GB or something like that, not to worry, it will fit it as it was.





Reboot, you should be good.





There is the odd possibility that you will have to initialize the new disk.


Don't know if Acronis will do this or you will need the XP (?) Vista (?)


Disk to do this, Or, whatever your operating system is.





Oh, Acronis should be able to install a new disk BEFORE you Wipe the original disk. READ the help.





Cheers!