ea3ot, firstly you cannot add a new drive without first uninstalling Rollback.
Doing so will probably corrupt the sector maps that Rollback uses because it wasnt aware of the second drive when it was first installed. Secondly, if you restore an image of your old drive onto your new one then again, Rollback will be unaware of the new drive's sectors being that you've restored to a different drive altogether. Even if you were to successfully restore to a different drive with Rollback intact, you would still need to uninstall Rollback BEFORE plugging the second drive (your old C: drive) to your Motherboard because in Rollback's eyes, it was installed with only one existing HD.
So either way, Rollback will need to be uninstalled resulting in the loss of all your snapshots.
I would recommend the following course of action. Its best to create a boot disk using your favourite Imaging software. Acronis True Image is an excellent choice.
1. Uninstall Rollback
2. Boot your computer from the Emergency Boot Disk (EBD) you created earlier.
3. Image your existing HD using an external drive or DVD's to back up to.
4. Leaving the EBD in the drive, shutdown PC. Change HD over ensuring that the new disk is jumpered as master.
5. Turn PC back on and allow it to boot from EBD again. Restore the image you just created to the new harddisk. You said the new disk is 150GB and you only had about 100Gb of data. The remaining 50Gb should be formatted automatically after the restore process has finished (or during....I cant remember how Acronis handles it).
6. Reboot the PC and "press any key" when asked to skip booting from the EBD (or the other way round.....cant remember). Allow the PC to boot from the new HD taking note that everything is as it should be (a new hardware was found window may pop up....just follow the prompts). When the system is stable and your sure that everything is working shutdown the PC. (Take out the EBD before shutting down if you havent done so already. You wont need it now).
7. Plug in Old drive C: making sure its jumpered as slave.
8. IMPORTANT. When you turn on PC now make sure that you press the "Delete" key so as to enter the BIOS before first boot with second drive. This is because the second drive is still marked as active with a working Windows so you want to get into the BIOS to make sure that the boot sequence is pointing to the new HD you just installed. Now reboot normally.
9. When Windows finishes loading, open Windows Explorer and right click on what should be Drive D:.(Ensuring that drive D: is indeed the old drive) Now click on format and proceed to format as NTFS.
10. When done, install Rollback again and your set.
PS If you dont want Rollback to protect Drive D: then choose the custom Setup during Rollback installation and deselect drive D:. If you later decide that you want to protect drive D: then be aware that the only way to do this is to uninstall Rollback and reinstall it selecting Drive D: when the option comes around or simply select the "default setup".
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