Windows 10: Copy OS to new HDD

Hi all,

Installed 2nd larger HD, could you help with the easiest way to copy the current c drive including os to the new drive please.

Many thanks

Paul

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Data lost when transacted in a HDD which was shutdown using hibernate option

Hi,

I had a trouble with one of HDD in laptop so i bought a new one.

To copy data before i changed HDD which already had OS,i shutdown the laptop,took out the faulty HDD and connected the new HDD and booted the OS.

Now i connected the faulty HDD as external drive and copied data from it to new HDD which was earlier shutdown using hibernate option.

But post restart the HDD shows freedrive space to be occipued but no data or folders to be seen.Please help.this has around 8 years of data.

 

Stop Recovery Loop on Old System Drive Hooked Up as USB

Stan,

If I understand you correctly, you are booting up the new computer with the old HDD already connected.

• That will confuse Windows.
• The old HDD still has a signature on it that identifies itself as a disk containing
  the OS so Windows is trying to cope with both that signature & the signature on your new computer's own HDD which also has a signature saying that it contains
  the OS.

Disconnect the old HDD then boot up the new computer and only then connect the old HDD to copy files across from it.

Denis

 

Any free disk imaging software will do it simply create a boot DVD of the software boot from it then select clone the disk to the new one most will give an option to change partition size in the process. Once done set new drive to to disk 0 disconnect old drive at first to ensure the new drives boots OK

 

Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free It says it does direct disk cloning.

Personally, I created a boot USB stick, complete with USB 3 drivers inserted, I used it the other day to image my new 860 Pro with W10 FCU from a 850 Pro.

I`ve never done a disk copy, but I`m sure it`s just as easy.

Then format the old drive if you are going to use it for storage.

It has to be marked inactive or windows will not let you format it.

I would just delete it down to unallocated space, then create a NTFS partition, format it and align it, all done with Partition Wizard.

Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free

DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT use Diskpart unless you know what you are doing.

 

Thank you very much, as ever

 

I moved system to new SSD once with a free software and booted up successfully from SSD. The software is also all-around partition manager because I resized my partition with that tool without losing data. Here is the tutorial that had guided me: Copy OS to new hard drive. Hope it is helpful to you.
BTW, do not forget to change boot priority to the target disk. Kind regards.

 

Yes, AOMEI is also a great program.