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Hello there LMG community! I am trying to swap my local disk (C) drive into a different drive with more storage on it (E). What is the best way of doing this without losing any of my current files? Both drives are installed.

I have gotten a new SSD that's a 2.5 Sata and would like to transfer my Os and all of my files onto the new one but the problem is I don't have a usb to Sata 2.5 cable on me and to order one i would have to wait a week or two. thank you for any help

Hi new user here, My question is that can I move my whole SSD and connect it to a completely new build which is completely not identical to the old one? Will it work? Is it possible? What other options do I have? Should I clone the SSD somehow? The reason why I want to do this because I have several apps that are very specific and needed for my work and it's very difficult to transfer them. I am using Windows 10. And I am switching from an I5 7400 to I5 13600K. Thank you!

I've been struggling with this situation for a few years now. Every single time I look for solutions, it feels like I'm taking crazy pills and I'm the only person on Earth who is trying to accomplish this, or the only one running into serious issues while trying. It seems like 90% of the time, the solution I find online is something completely unacceptable, stuff like "buy a mac", or switch to android, or "just pay for iCloud perpetually" etc... I'm a stubborn sob, I don't want to pay for iCloud space, I don't want to lose picture quality, I don't want to have my images be in that stupid HEIF image format, I don't even want to temporarily enable iCloud for photos. I want the pictures that are on my iPhone 12 Pro to be moved as-is onto my Windows PC (Windows 10 Pro) where I can manually make back up copies. I'm going to quickly rattle off solutions that I have tried: 1. iCloud Windows Application - I tried this a while ago and was unable to get my photos off the phone, the Windows application is very crap. 2. iCloud Browser Access Download - Downloading my photos (at full resolution in their native format) is difficult enough through their interface, but then removing them from my phone is also difficult and unpredictable. On top of that, iCloud has a very obnoxious strategy for backing up photos. It essentially randomly chooses photos in your collection at random times and uploads them. This strategy makes it impractical for someone who has thousands of photos and very little phone storage space left or free iCloud space. I'd have to remove like 50 random photos at a time and then wait a random amount of time for a random assortment of 50 new pictures to be selected to repeat the process. I've also heard it can take weeks for iCloud to select photos for cloud backup and weeks to remove photos from your phone that you've removed from iCloud manually, which means it would be risky to try to bite the storage cost bullet, try to remove all photos, and then stop paying. The randomization is unpredictable and may drag on for months. 3. Windows Built-in Photo Transfer - Windows has a built-in utility to move or copy photos off of a media device like a phone, and this utility has also failed for the same reason as another method which I'll discuss next. 4. Manual Transfer - good old fashioned; plug the phone via wire directly, navigate to the directory and move the files off myself. Oh boy, this is where the iPhone really gets intense. It took me a while to learn about this, but apparently the iPhone has tons of background processes (I'm guessing like iCloud) which are constantly randomly grabbing the file handles for my pictures, so if one of those processes does that while I am moving a picture off my iPhone, the transfer will fail, and I will then no longer be able to access the iPhone file directories until I restart the iPhone completely. I believe this behavior of the phone is what also prevents the Windows Built-in Photo Transfer tool from completing. Currently, the only way I've been able to get photos or videos off my phone is with the manual transfer, I'm able to get a few images off at a time, then I have to restart the phone, and repeat. It takes an insane amount of time and patience. There was one suggestion I read once that kind of helped a little, apparently if you put the phone into airplane mode it shuts off some (not all) of those background processes I mentioned, and you can get more photos off per session before having to restart the phone again. Ultimately I just want control over my photos and when and how I back it all up. I do not want to use iCloud, and it's not even about the money, it's behavior is completely contrary to my very being. At this point, Apple is effectively holding my photos hostage. The ransom demand is to pay for iCloud storage space for the rest of my life (and worse have to actually use iCloud for photos), or spend many hours of my time and intense frustration every time I want to back up my photos. Everyone I know offline with my circumstance has simply relented, "I just started paying for the iCloud storage space". Last quick note, I want to say I know about the fact that the phone stores some edits you make in unusual formats and such. In short, I don't care about losing the edits, I just want the raw full res image in its native jpg format (that's how the images are stored on the device prior to iCloud). So, are there any other people in the same boat as me? Has anyone found a solution to this or have any suggestions I could try? Am I taking crazy pills?

I bought my brother a new motherboard and cpu and boot drive. I have no idea how to proceed now that I have tried to get started. He has 5 drives in his PC with over 6 TB of data. I got a 1 TB M.2 and a 3 TB hard drive brand new. How do I get windows on the new boot drive and then migrate or transfer his account and data. he has games and save files scattered across all his drives. Would something like raid be worth doing to better manage his files? I've never done it before. Is there a way to backup only his most important files without having to select every folder individually? I don't even know what folders to select. I have built PC's before, but never upgraded one like this before. Thanks, I could really use the help. I feel bad for buying him a nice new CPU, and I thought I could do this. Now I have no idea what to do to get his PC upgraded and not lose all his files and important data and make him start from scratch.

My brothers PC has several hard drives in it, with several terabytes of data across them all. I am installing a new motherboard, CPU and boot drive. Is there a way to create a backup of only his most important settings and files? I simply don't have enough drives to backup all his data. If windows has the options to do this, I cannot find it. Also, once I install windows on the new drive, how do I migrate or move his account/files/etc onto the new drive? He has so many games spread across multiple drives, nothing is organized, the drives are not setup in any kind or raid or anything. What would be the best way to set it up once I have it all together. I have a new 1 TB m.2 drive and a 3 TB hard drive, but he has at least 6 TB or more of data across 5 drives.

Hey, I'm back again and with another problem, I'm trying to work out how to move my word, PowerPoint basically everything inside of Microsoft 365 office etc... Obviously standing in my way is windows 10 and it's 'clever' error codes reading: We couldnt move word. Error code 0x80073d0b. I've looked online for solutions and so far I've disabled EFS, NTFS and I reset Microsoft store. My problem now is that it is still happening. So now I'm trying to get some extra help to solving this issue. Many thanks, Fire

Hello everyone! (I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question, if not I am sorry) I am planning to build a new pc, and I need to transfer everything from my old one to my new one without losing anything. And I also want to transfer the Windows 11 that is on the old one. I was wondering how I could do this? Should I use like an external SSD or a flash drive. Again I haven’t built the new one I just want to know what I need before I do. All help is appreciated, Thank you!

Hi, I've just started mining with nicehash, realised there can be quite large fees for exchanging or transferring the bitcoin. Please could someone fill me in on the best way of transferring/exchanging/saving bitcoin earned on nicehash. Bit confused by all the different types of wallets and stuff.

Hello guys! I am recently new to bitcoin and mining. So I started to mine with NiceHash. My question is what is the best way for me to convert my bitcoin into real money with smallest amount of fees. I want to transfer it and to stay in my bank account, but I read that first I need to send it to coinbase and then transfer it to my credit card. But i have a little problem and cant register to coinbase because it wants me a bill with my name , adress and so on. I provided them 3 different types of bills and still cant register. I will be grateful if someone can help me and explain to me how it works. Thank you!

After using PCTrans to transfer my apps to my new pc, there seems to be a bug were it tried to transfer my games and somehow shows an odd directory. Does anyone know what caused this?

current build:https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QCtwTJ new one: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dLqD68 when I am done building my new pc, would I just plug in all my drives from my old one to the new one? How would I go about this? Thanks

Hi, I have a old samsung phone that i am not using anymore. I now have a moto e7 and i want to transfer the WhatsApp chats to the new phone. How do i do it?

Hi all, I’ll try to make this short. I was a full Windows/Android consumer until Engineering University. I branched back into the Apple World through their iPad (7th Gen. / 32GB) for note-taking and video editing. I fell in love and bought the iPad Mini (5 Gen. / 256GB). Now I own an iPad Pro 2020 (WiFi + Cellular). Yes, I went in deep. My question is, what is the best way to transfer both small and large files between iPadOS and Windows? I currently use Google Drive. I access it through Chrome on Windows and the My Files app on iPadOS. I need a faster way. I don’t own an iMac or MacBook so AirDrop isn’t an option; but a similar method is welcomed. Please advise. Thank you!

I have an old alienware desktop with an HDD. I want to transfer ALL the files to the M.2 SSD on my new pc. Only problem is, I can't take the HDD out of the alienware pc (or rather, won't as I can not stand trying to work and troubleshoot it if something goes wrong) or add the M.2 drive to it as it has no 2280 slot. Anyone have any advice?

I was trying to fix my neighbour's old laptop. I determined the problem was the OS and needs reinstalling. I tried to put the HDD on my external drive enclosure but when I plugged it in to my desktop. It wont detect the files and just showed up as 4 partition, 3 of them being Local DIsk somehow. Also when plugged the usb controller gone haywire somehow. Then I tried using Ubuntu via bootable usb stick hopping maybe it can read it. And you know what it did. But I can't transfer the file to my computer drives 'cause it detects it as a read only drive Can someone helped with transferring these files.

sorry for my lack of good speakings but i will try to be brief, i just finished building my first from the ground pc, with an i3 1100f an asus primeH410M-E mobo, 16gb ddr4 ram, 240lexar ssd and a gtx 1660oc (budget because brazil but quite effective) anyway i was transfering some files from my NAS and i noticed my transfer speeds were very slow <1mb/s while in my old setup it was 10mb/s or more, now all my speed tests are showing 10mb ethernet speeds, but in my old pc its showing 150mb/s, is like the ethernet port is limithing my bandwith and i cant seem to find how to fix it, i ddu all my drivers updated windows, its all up to date, but still no more than 1.1mb/s speeds while doing anything related to the ethernet jack

Hi guys new here, however I have been watching Linus for far to long to even remember. The situation: I want to transfer massive folders to a WD EX4, however its taking days. Its in Raid 1, not encrypted, using ISCSI also. The issue Very slow..diabolical local network transfer speed such as 2Mb/s on AVG peak at 10. Hardware WD EX4 Negear switch My PC cable is all CAT 5e and CAT 6 Seagate Ironwolf pro hard drives. Things I have tried Turning off - Large send offload ipv4 and ipv4v2 and ipv6 Changing speed and duplex from auto to 100mbs full and half and back to auto Turning off Encryption on the nas drives - was not happy as had to re format. Another note on my LAN settings I always have to turn off use proxy server for your LAN .127.0.0.1. what is this and why dose uplay have an issue connecting, I have also tried transfers with this on and off. (This could be from when I set up a server a while ago that is now not in use) why did i choose this....Limitations of money I have built a server in the past to use as FTP and phone back up for when i am out however this is long gone, If i could i would have a server was much easier to use/understand Please guys HELP in some ways I am a spoon, a newbie however in others I am not, just so happens I dont get along with my NAS or network atm.

I'm sure this is way easier than I think, but I want to copy and paste games from my pc to another, but I don't know if it's as easy as just copy paste 150 GB Warzone from my drive to my brother's, can someone help me? I've done it with valorant, but valorant is a 7 GB game...

Hi Guys Over the years of constant computer upgrades, I have traditionally transferred my old HDD to the new computer and just used it as extra storage I now have 3 x 1TB HDD of those 3 HDDs, two of them are at capacity with the 3rd one starting to fill up My current OS is booting from a small 256GB SSD What I would like to do is either buy one or 2 large SSD and use them as storage and throw away the old HDD My question is, what would be the best way of doing this? I foresee obvious time issues and possible stability problems Do I trust windows to do the transfer or do I use another program any assistance or suggestions would be much appreciated Thanks

Hi there, My system has been green screening over and over with no chance in getting access to the files and backing them up so I bought a new SSD and installed Win11 on it to then bulk transfer the data to my new drive. The problem is that when I try and copy a folder over to the new drive nothing happens and when I transfer a file, I get the error displayed in "unknown.png" I figured this is a permissions issue so I tried to change the drive's permissions and when I wen to look I noticed that the owner was "TrustedInstaller". This makes sense since I attempted to reset my old OS once to see if that could help with the green screen issue. So I changed the ownership to my new Administrators account and when I confirmed (with the "Replace all child object permission entries" option checked) I got the erros described in unknown(1).png and unknown(2).png. At this point I'm running out of ideas. Can anyone help me out?

Since there isn't a Usb bridge cable available here in my country so i got an idea to connect my mobile OTG Cable in my PC and connect a USB To USB cable in it so the otg would be connected with transferring between my laptop and pc desktop would it work?

Hello everyone i got a really interesting question and i hope someone helps regarding this so i have an hp dc7800p PC with an LGA 775 Q35 chipset on it but im having some motherboard issues and cannot post the good news is that probably my RAM/CPU/GPU are all working but the most important part for me is the hard drive it is working and in okay condition last time i used my PC but i need all the data + OS on it so the real question here is can i put everything all back together with the same case on a new motherboard with the identical old one ( ig LGA 775 ) then boot into my old drive with everything saved? I wouldn’t mind 10% of issues but i need at least 90% of the windows 10 to operate properly do not tell me to copy data over and install a fresh windows as that’s completely useless and not the point of what I’m trying to ask/do side note: it also has a patched theme and many programs installed i need it all regardless someone help and let me know as soon as possible as I’m considering this as a best solution for a faulty motherboard also this only happened recently due to a long story that i don’t need to bring up also my power supply is in working condition at 325w max thanks!

Hey I'm looking to get the nzxt h1 case whenever it come out. So I have a computer that has like I believe it is a 2tb hard drive, and the h1 case only have 2 2.5" bays and my hdd is a 3.5". Is there any easy ways to transfer the data over to a SSD? This hard drive has all my games on it but I bet I can redownload everything on the SSD once I get it but I don't want to redownload everything.

OK, so here's the situation: Right now I'm in the process of making a big hardware repair/upgrade. I am replacing my old 1TB WD Blue with a 500GB Samsung 860 Evo and a 3TB WD Blue. I will be removing the 1TB drive to format and give to my brother. (Also I am replacing my power supply as it seems that it's breathing its last breaths, just FYI) Here is the problem: Currently the 1TB WD Blue is the only drive in my system, and as such holds my files and my OS. I want to transfer Windows (only Windows) to the SSD. I am ok with starting fresh with clean drives, so I don't really want to save my files (other than a folder I'm already backing up and can stick on a thumb drive or the Cloud.) Here is my question: How can I transfer Windows (just Windows) to the SSD? The majority of the tutorials I see use drive mirroring software to completely copy the drive, but this requires that the new drive meets or exceeds the capacity of the old (or so I understand) and 500GB does not meet 1TB. Of course, 500GB should be plenty to hold the OS. What other methods exist to move/install Windows (with it's liscence activation) to this smaller SSD? Or can I use the smaller drive to mirror the old one after all? I hope I worded this well enough. Any help or tips here are appreciated, and I'm happy to provide more details if they are needed.