How Do I Migrate My OS Drive?


  1. torninja
    Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home 64bit
       New #1

    How Do I Migrate My OS Drive?


    Most people reinstall their OS when buying new hard drives, but for me that would take days or weeks. I work with music production/film making/graphic design, and I have a lot of software with their licenses and hundreds of plug-ins each with thousands of presets and configurations.. my system is perfect and stable now, but the HD is 5 years old, and it will fail eventually.

    If I buy a new hard drive, can I migrate the entire contents of my old disc on to the new one? And continue to work as usual on the new disc?

    What is the best way to do this?
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

  3. Golden
    Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       New #2

    Yes. Image the drive using Macrium Reflect, then restore the image to the new drive.
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

  4. ignatzatsonic
    Posts : 12,012
    Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit
       New #3

    Imaging or cloning can do that.

    Cloning maybe a bit easier. Imaging maybe a bit more reliable.

    Look at Macrium Reflect. There are tutorials on this site.

    Other apps that do the same type of thing: Aomei Backupper, Acronis, EaseUS, Paragon, and probably others.
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

 

  Related Discussions
Went from 500GB to 1TB Hard Drive now keep getting "Not Running Genuine Windows" error." Can't figure out the problem. I upgraded two computers at the same time... one fixed itself right away, this one continues the problem, and won't let me run the updates to Windows now... or upgrade my other...
Hello, I'm fairly new to these forums but would like to request help for upgrading my laptop. I am thinking of adding a 120GB Msata and 1TB HDD to it (to replace 500GB). My question is how would I go about transferring my dat,a(Pictures, music, videos) to the new hard drive and setting the Msata as...
i'm trying to do a clean install from usb with windows7 ultimate x64 onto a Samsung 840EVO 250gb SSD. i've tried this on my tower pc and i've also tried the 840evo ssd in my laptop, both systems recognize the ssd but when i click on format the ssd is showing as the primary drive but it then say no...
I have my O/S disk ( C: ) sepeated from My Applications disc ( D: ) . Then I store all my Data on other Harddrives. I want to upgrade my applications disk to a larger capacity, but I worry about maintaining the integrity of Disknames (IDs) so I won't have to re-install all my Applications...
Migrate to new drive
in General Discussion

I'm running out of disc and want to preferable migrate the whole kit and kaboodle to a new drive. I'd like to use the current drive as a rendering drive. Is there an easy and "free" way of doing this or should I just bite the bullet and reinstall? Thanks, Burt
Our Sites
Site Links
About Us
Windows 7 Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. "Windows 7" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

 © Designer Media Ltd
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:30.
Find Us