Copying the OS hard drive to a new hard drive

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Hi, I'll be getting a new hard drive soon and I'm wondering if it is possible to copy the whole of my current C: drive including the OS to a new hard drive. Reason being the new hard drive will be faster and would be more beneficial for me.

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Yes. The easiest way to do it is to clone the hard drive with C: to the new drive. There are several products to do this, but if one of your drives is a Western Digital or Seagate (maybe other HDD manufacturers as well) you can go to the drive manufacturers support site and download a special edition version of True Image Home. This has the capability to make a clone of one drive to another and it is fairly straight-forward. Basically you do the clone operation, shut down your computer, remove the old drive and connect the cloned drive to where it was (or swap them), and boot it up.
 

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yes, but you will need to use a cloning program.
Seagate and Western Digital offer free versions that will work for their drives only.

WD Support

DiscWizard | Seagate
 

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Is the DiscWiz a new version, or are they still using cut down ATI 11.?
 

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Zepher said:
yes, but you will need to use a cloning program.
Seagate and Western Digital offer free versions that will work for their drives only.

WD Support

DiscWizard | Seagate
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They will work for any brand drive as long as you have one of their drives in your system, like I said.
 
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Ah cool, I'll be getting a WD so I'll give the programs mentioned a look, thanks :)
 

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Yes I know it a version of Acronis - just wondering if they have updated DiscWiz - it used to be based on ATI 11.

Pretty old now.
 

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I just used the WD version. If you install both disks and install the WD version on your old HD, when you open it there will be an option to clone the drive. A wizzard will come up, you select the drive to clone from then the drive to clone to. Your computer will shut down and the cloning will take place on startup. It was quite simple and worked great for me.
 

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SIW2 said:
Yes I know it a version of Acronis - just wondering if they have updated DiscWiz - it used to be based on ATI 11.

Pretty old now.
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I don't know for Seagate, but it is still TIH 11 for WD. I expect it is the same for Seagate. I expect the clone functionality hasn't changed much.

That is OK by me tho - I find that every new major version of their software is worse than its predecessor.
 

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SIW2 said:
Yes I know it a version of Acronis - just wondering if they have updated DiscWiz - it used to be based on ATI 11.

Pretty old now.
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Not sure if it is the version currently available on the Seagate site, but just found DiscWizard v13 build 14.355, from a Seagate link, different interface then the last version I had.

Didn't want to D/L it again to check, my internet speed is horrible.

DiscWizard from Seagate version number 3Apr11.PNG
 

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That interface looks to be the same as the WD version. I guess Seagate updated theirs.
 

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Yes , that is a fairly recent update.

Thanks - will have a look at it.
 

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Yes, I had already found that - thanks.

Took about 10 seconds. LOL.

Luckily, you can still get v11 - they don't appear to have updated all the download links.

V11 has a massive advantage - you can download the Bartpe plugin - throw it on your winpe3 boot media. It works really well. Surprisingly small and efficient compared to the installed version.

Sadly - they seem to have removed it from the newer version.

That is a huge step backwards.
 

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Actually, this intrigues me. Is it possible to clone a drive to a usb portable hard drive?
 

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You could probably clone it.

Getting windows to boot from usb connected drive is a different matter.
 

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kbronski said:
Actually, this intrigues me. Is it possible to clone a drive to a usb portable hard drive?
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Yes, though I haven't tried bootng to it over USB
 

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OS
Windows 10 Pro. EFI boot partition, full EFI boot
CPU
i7 4770k 4.4GHz (44-44-43-43 turbo) @ 1.248V
Motherboard
ASUS Maximus VI Hero
Memory
16GB (8GBx2) @2200 MHz G.skill Sniper 10-11-10-30-1, 1.6V
Graphics Card(s)
MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G
Sound Card
Onboard SupremeFX Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
NEC Spectraview 2490WUXi-SV
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1200
Hard Drives
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB (OS), Samsung 2x 128GB 840 Pro SSD in RAID0, 3x WD Blue 6Gb/s 1TB RAID0, WD 2TB Black external USB 3.0, 2TB WD20EARS Green external USB 3.0, 2x 500GB Seagate and 1 750 GB external USB, 1x 350GB external USB3
PSU
Seasonic X-850 (2012 KM3 model)
Case
Fractal Design Define R4
Cooling
NH-D14, NF-F12, NF-A15; NF-P14, NF-P12,NF-A14, S12A PWM
Keyboard
Cooler Master Storm Quickfire Rapid - Brown
Mouse
Logitech G602
Internet Speed
126.4 Mb/s down, 24.3 Mb/s up
Other Info
USB 3.0 x8 , SATA III x8, eSATA, USB 2.0 x6. Samsung DVD R/W drive.

WEI: CPU 7.8, Memory 7.9, Graphics 7.9, Disk 7.9
Your all talking 'cloning' here. I did this from a WD drive to a Seagate drive without cloning.
Obviously the simple solution is to use a system backup (created with Windows Backup). I have a dedicated internal drive just for doing system backups.
Run the backup and do a complete (system) backup of your C: drive.
Remove the old drive and install the new drive.
Upon first boot, go into BIOS and ensure the new drive is the first drive (i.e. Drive 0) and set your Boot order (i.e. CD/USB/HDD0). Save this and reboot from your Windows install disk.
Select Repair as your option and restore the backup to the new drive with System Restore.
Reboot from the new HDD.
What could be simpler and effective solution?
 

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At a glance

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Retail)Intel I7-860G.Skill RipJaw DDR3-1333 16GB (4x4GB)Nvidia GTS-250 1GB
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Personal build
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Retail)
CPU
Intel I7-860
Motherboard
Asus Maximus III Formula
Memory
G.Skill RipJaw DDR3-1333 16GB (4x4GB)
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GTS-250 1GB
Sound Card
SupremeFX X-Fi 7.1 HD sound system.
Monitor(s) Displays
VisionQuest VQL-22WSHD LCD Monitor
Screen Resolution
1680x1050
Hard Drives
1x Seagate ST3500418AS 500G SATA2 HDD
1x Western Digital Caviar SE16 500G SATA2 HDD
1x Western Digital Caviar SE16 750G SATA2 HDD
2x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA2 HDD, configured RAID1
PSU
OCZ EliteXtream OCZ1000EXS 1000W ATX12V 20/24 Pin Active PFC
Case
Antec 1200
Cooling
Swifteck H2O-220 Ultima XT Liquid Cooling w/ 320 Radiator
Keyboard
Logitech G11 Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech MX518 Optical Mouse
Internet Speed
Cable Modem
Other Info
Visiontek TV Wonder 650 Theater PCI-E TV Tuner Card
Logitech 9000 Pro Web Camera
Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2 game controller
LG 18x SuperMulti SATA2 DVD Writer
NmediaPC CR98 Multi Card reader
Nmedia Pro-LCD
Corsair Dominator Memory Fan
Coolermaster R4-L2R-20ac 120mm Case Fan x2
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