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Transferring Win7 from old hard drive to new one, on newly built pc.
I have decided to build a new pc completely from scratch (specs fownd below). My problems starts when I realised I needed to transfer win7 to the new hard drive as i dont fancy paying for a new os. So I have a few questions, that I'm hoping you can help me with.
Firstly what programs are on offer to do the cloning process and are they free, bearing in mind the hard drive I am buying is WD (western digital).
Secondly is it possible to to simply just transfer just win7 OS and nothing else,therefore clean hard drive, only containing os.
Thirdly, ideally i would like to transfer the os and and certain things, for instance can you pick and choose what is cloned onto the new hard drive, so for instance a clean hard drive but only containing my installed games, since I dont really want to re-download all my games again if it can be avoided. But I dont want the other stuff iIdont need to be transfered.
And finally Im am a complete novice as far as cloning hard drives, so is the processs simply or are there a few things i should know.
Sorry if a forum about this topic is already out there.
Thanks,
Tom
Specs
Case: CoolerMaster Haf 922
Motherboard: Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3
CPU: Intel i5 2500k
Graphics Card: HD 6970
PSU: Corsair TX650
Hard Drive: WD 7,200rpm 1TB 600GB/s (Still deciding but most likely.
RAM: G Skill Ripjaws X 8GB 1600Mhz