assistance needed How to move all data on primary drive to new drive

[machinima811]

I got a new 4tb HDD and I want to move all my files from my old drive to my new one so it can be my new primary drive.
I want the whole drive empty so I can use it to build a family PC

old 1TB drive is my C:/
New 4TB drive is my E:/

Is there a safe way to do this, considering the OS and boot instructions are on C:/ ?

 

[Ichoumaz]

1 minute ago, machinima811 said:

I got a new 4tb HDD and I want to move all my files from my old drive to my new one so it can be my new primary drive.
I want the whole drive empty so I can use it to build a family PC

old 1TB drive is my C:/
New 4TB drive is my E:/

Is there a safe way to do this, considering the OS and boot instructions are on C:/ ?

 

do you also want to make the 4tb drive as your boot drive or no?

[machinima811]

4 minutes ago, Ichoumaz said:

do you also want to make the 4tb drive as your boot drive or no?

Yes

[Ichoumaz]

1 minute ago, machinima811 said:

Yes

alright, unplug your old drive, install windows into your new drive, turn off your pc, plug your old drive back in, load into bios, set the boot options so that windows boots from your new drive, confirm, save and restart, once you are up and running, just copy and paste the files you want and go to a party or enjoy the outdoors, cause its gonna take forever to copy all of those files to the new drive if its a hard drive, 800gb is alot of NSFW memes XD, so its gonna take a while, once its done, and you have confirmed and checked that everything is there, wipe the old drive clean if you dont want to keep the files as back up

[machinima811]

13 minutes ago, Ichoumaz said:

alright, unplug your old drive, install windows into your new drive, turn off your pc, plug your old drive back in, load into bios, set the boot options so that windows boots from your new drive, confirm, save and restart, once you are up and running, just copy and paste the files you want and go to a party or enjoy the outdoors, cause its gonna take forever to copy all of those files to the new drive if its a hard drive, 800gb is alot of NSFW memes XD, so its gonna take a while, once its done, and you have confirmed and checked that everything is there, wipe the old drive clean if you dont want to keep the files as back up

Thanks for your help. Will probably do it overnight I suppose

[SupaKomputa]

You don't use SSD?

[machinima811]

11 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

You don't use SSD?

i like reliable storage, no thank you
considering its $150 for 1 Terabyte of SSD Storage, I will save my wallet for something more important, like... RGB
Edit: my 4TB 7500RPM 256Mb Cache HDD was  only $109.95CAD for reference

Edited February 21, 2020 by machinima811

[SupaKomputa]

SSD is reliable and a must for todays pc.

You don't have to use 1tb, 256gb is enough if you can manage the space efficiently.

If i were you, i install windows on ssd and have the hdd for storage only.

Using 4tb as a boot drive will be very slow, even the cheapest ssd would easily outperform it.