How do I copy all data from one drive to another?

[PerryT78]

Hi everyone,

 

My current 2TB hard drive is making some horrible noises (clicking and crackling) so I have purchased a new 1TB Seagate hard drive. 

I want to make a complete mirror copy of the old hard drive onto the new one so I don't lose game saves, work, etc...

 

Is there a way to completely mirror the drive through windows or do I need a third party program?

 

Thanks

 

 

[2SidedPolygon]

Samsung's data migration software should do the trick.

[RayMurr]

1 minute ago, 2SidedPolygon said:

Samsung's data migration software should do the trick.

CTRL+C and CTRL+V duh..... (Im kidding)

[RyzenUp]

Just conntect both and drag and drop. If it's a OS drive use a drive cloning program or just reinstall your OS

[Mira Yurizaki]

19 minutes ago, PerryT78 said:

Hi everyone,

 

My current 2TB hard drive is making some horrible noises (clicking and crackling) so I have purchased a new 1TB Seagate hard drive. 

I want to make a complete mirror copy of the old hard drive onto the new one so I don't lose game saves, work, etc...

 

Is there a way to completely mirror the drive through windows or do I need a third party program?

If you want to do a literal mirror, you'd have to clone it, assuming you're not using more than 1TB of data on the 2TB drive.

 

Otherwise you can copy and paste normally. Or if you want something a bit better, try the robocopy command.

[SenKa]

My favorite is GParted, never failed me.

[ToneBone]

Like these other guys said, it kinda depends on what's on the old drive. If it's an OS drive, you'll have to clone the whole thing or use a data migration tool. Other than that, you should just be able to copy and paste the files to the other drive by connecting the two. It may take a while depending on the transfer speed but it should work

[BecauseICanTBH]

There's a software called Macrium Reflect that will do a precise bit-for-bit clone, if that's what you're looking for (OS and all). It's free and clean, I've used it.

[Yvette222]

You may need a third party tool. Based on my experience, the third party tools can do this work very well. Sound like your drive has physical issues, bad sector probably. So, it's better to make the backup as soon as possible.

For the clone tool, you can try MiniTool partition wizard, easeus backup, minitool shadowmaker, aomei backup tool, Marcium reflect...Some can copy your drive directly to another one, some can help you back up the drive to a file.

[MojangYang]

6 hours ago, ForChickenNuggets said:

Just conntect both and drag and drop. If it's a OS drive use a drive cloning program or just reinstall your OS

That’s not the best idea. The drive contains hidden files that do not copy

[MojangYang]

The destination drive should be the same size or larger than the original drive, or you will have to partion the original size to 1tb

try this:

https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/free-transfer-windows-10-to-new-hdd-ssd.html