Windows 10: How do I avoid data loss when transferring my hard drive with OS to a new pc?

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  1. AVA KB
    Ava KB Win User

    How do I avoid data loss when transferring my hard drive with OS to a new pc?


    Background Information:I use my PC for casual gaming, digital art, music production, and general content creation.I got a pre-built Windows 10 HP desktop a couple years ago. As I was trying to upgrade the GPU, I realized that the PSU wasn't powerful enough to support the upgrade. Trying to use a bigger case to give room for a more powerful PSU since my HP had a compact design, it was only after my father and I'd moved the motherboard that we realized it was HP proprietary.Just recently, my family sold our old house and I was given $1,000 plus $290 more from my birthday and Christmas; I'm us

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    Ava KB, Jan 22, 2023
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  2. SCOTTY007_23
    Scotty007_23 Win User

    Transfer of OS to new hard drive.

    I currently have Windows 10. I have a hard drive that is going bad and need to transfer the OS to the new hard drive.

    How can it be done?

    Thank you
     
    Scotty007_23, Jan 22, 2023
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  3. CAYDOG17
    Caydog17 Win User
    Transfer OS to new hard drive

    Hello, I just ordered a new Seagate Barracuda 2tb HDD for my desktop and i was wondering how i could go about transferring my Windows 10 OS over along with some other software i have downloaded. I plan on combing my two hard drives into the new one, and
    trashing the older/smaller ones.

    What would be the steps i follow to ensure i do this successfully?
     
    Caydog17, Jan 22, 2023
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  4. VITALC0D3R
    ViTaLC0D3R Win User

    How do I avoid data loss when transferring my hard drive with OS to a new pc?

    RAW Hard Drive Data Loss

    Windows 10 1909 x64

    So I had mounting a Hard Drive to VMware and access the drive through VMware. One day I tried to access the data on the drive and Windows detected the drive as a Raw drive and I had know idea what do so I looked online and people suggested running chkdsk /r so I did and after that it fixed the drive but now it says the drive is completely empty there is nothing on the drive. So I download Recuva and checked to see if the data is there and there are lots of files but i am unable to tell what everything is. Is there a way to rebuild this back to normal and recover the data on the drive or am I sol? Thanks for the help. I have at included the output of chkdsk, Recuva screenshot, and Windows Explorer.

    output.txt

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    ViTaLC0D3R, Jan 22, 2023
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