How to Upgrade Your Existing Hard Drive in Under an Hour

How to clone your old HDD onto a new HDD and get your entire system back up and running in under an hour; no reinstallation of Windows and all your applications necessary.

"Why would you want to do this?

Unlike popping in some new memory or adding a peripheral, upgrading a hard drive has the potential to be a real pain. Rather than go through the hassle of backing up all your documents and files, pulling your old disk, popping in a new one, formatting it, and reinstalling your OS (along with all your programs) and then tweaking everything to get it back the way it was, you can follow along with us here and have your old disk cloned, your new disk installed, and your machine up and running again in (typically) under an hour...." Read more ...


I can confirm & testify that this howtogeek.com claim is absolutely true, as I have just used the procedure to upgrade from a (faulty) 500 GB Seagate HDD to a brand new Seagate 1TB HDD. Swapped the disks after cloning, and then booted back into windows on the new HDD perfectly as normal,  like nothing had ever even happened... in less than 1 hour!

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The server {} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.

Event Viewer Error:
'The server {BF6C1E47-86EC-4194-9CE5-13C15DCB2001} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.' *

Event Viewer Error:
'The server {1B1F472E-3221-4826-97DB-2C2324D389AE} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.' **

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* Windows Registry Editor reveals that CLSID {BF6C1E47-86EC-4194-9CE5-13C15DCB2001} is: "Automatic Maintenance task to enable SkyDrive file sync to make progress while in Connected Standby", which has LocalServer32 = 'C:\Windows\System32\skydrive.exe'

** Windows Registry Editor also reveals that CLSID {1B1F472E-3221-4826-97DB-2C2324D389AE} is for "SyncEngineCOMServer Class", which has LocalServer32 = 'C:\Windows\System32\skydrive.exe'

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Consequently, if you keep getting errors like these in your Windows System Logs (in the Event Viewer), then here is a possible suggested fix: (to start Windows Task Scheduler, click Start Menu or use shortcut WindowsKey+R and type: taskschd.msc .... then)


"In the Task Scheduler, once you expand Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows, scroll down and click on SkyDrive, you find two scheduled jobs, "Idle Sync Maintenance Task" and "Routine Maintenance Task".  I found that disabling both of these jobs has caused the error message to cease.

I don't think disabling these jobs will be a good solution for everyone, since there may be useful things that these jobs [are supposed to] do, but for me, since I have no interest in SkyDrive, disabling them is fine."


from Noel at answers.microsoft.com: