Mitchell77

Thanks for the advice guys! Finally got everything copied over & it works! Start menu shortcuts were messed up for a while but all i had to do was edit the file path (changed it to the exact same thing and hit apply) for each one & they fixed. Was worried I might have more registry-related issues from copy-pasting program files, etc. but it appears to be working fine so far.

Thanks. Thought that might work but didn't want to waste hours waiting for all the files to move over just to have it fail lol. Hopefully it works, getting tired of troubleshooting

I have a 120gb ssd with windows and a few programs installed on it, but right now most of my stuff is on a 2gb storage HDD. Since I've been wanting more space for a while and the HDD is pretty old (5+ years) I decided to buy a 4gb WD Black to replace it. I just spent all day trying to clone my 2gb HDD to the new 4gb one using macrium reflect, but after struggling with errors due to bad sectors & waiting ~4 hours for "chkdsk /r", which didn't seem to fix anything (got stuck on 13% for hours, then suddenly started scanning the new HDD & finished within less than a minute before booting into windows normally), I'm starting to consider my alternatives. Aside from cloning my storage drive or starting fresh/redownloading everything, what other options do I have if I want to retain most of/all of my data when upgrading? Potentially dumb question, but: could I manually drag everything from my current HDD to the new one without issues? As in would software installations, etc. be affected? Btw, although according to the errors in macrium reflect my HDD has bad sectors, I haven't noticed any signs of corruption myself. Thanks in advance for the help!

I just got a new 4 TB WD Black & installed in it my PC. when I first turned on the PC i noticed that it was making a bit of noise while windows was starting, and since booting it's been making a small (pretty quiet, much quieter than my mechanical keyboard) "click" sound almost exactly every 5 seconds. My WD Green that I've had for years (and is still in the pc) never made these noises. Is this normal for WD Blacks? Or should I try to return it before it's too late? Btw it's been happening since before I even initialized the HDD.Also, if anyone has any recommended HDD testing software, please let me know. Thanks in advance for the help!

I currently have a 120gb ssd with windows and a few programs installed on it, and a 2tb HDD with games, media, etc. on it. Since I've been wanting more space for a while now & my build (and thus my HDD) is nearly 6 years old, I decided to buy a 4tb WD Black HDD to replace my 2tb storage drive. I'm planning on cloning everything from the 2tb drive to the 4tb one, but I'm not sure what software to use as I've never done this before. If anyone has any recommendations or advice, please let me know. Side note: I know I'd probably be better off just backing up my important stuff, reinstalling windows, and restoring the backup on to the new drive. But I'd really rather just clone the drive & not have to deal with reinstalling every program on my PC. Thanks in advance for the help!