Okay, so I'll be getting a new hard drive soon and I want to make it my boot drive, while keeping all of my data. I think I came up with a solution that doesn't involve getting an external storage device and I wanna know if it'll work.
So, here it is: I make a Windows recovery disc with the Windows 10 utility, and I save my disk image to the old hard drive; the new one already being connected.
Next I reboot my PC, and change boot priority to DVD in BIOS.
Then, in the troubleshooting options I choose to recover from system image, and select my new hard drive as the target, wait for it to finish, then again change the boot priority to the new disk.
Now the old disk is reformatted, and the new one has all the data and the OS. Will this solution work?
Also, will my new HDD have all of its storage available(since it's larger than the old one)?