Replacing C Drive

technocardy · February 18, 2020

I'm about to build my new gaming rig and thought this would be an ideal time to replace my very full SSD C drive. I currently have a 500 GB SSD drive for C and a 1 TB HDD for D and I'm looking to expand that by adding a new SSD for C. Turning my current C drive into a regular drive and then keeping the 1 TB drive as is.

The only problem is I have no idea what process is involved in replacing a C drive without losing everything on that drive and having to reinstall windows.

Do you clone the current C drive to the new one and then format the original C drive? What software do I need? Is there a different process?

Clearly I've got no idea how to go about this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(Apologies if this is worded horribly, I'm running on 2 hours of 3 minutes of sleep...)

Uptivuptiz · February 18, 2020

You can plug the new drive into your excisting machine and download Minitool Partition wizard. It has a disk cloning tool you can use. This guide should help you along the way.

technocardy · February 19, 2020

11 hours ago, Uptivuptiz said:

You can plug the new drive into your excisting machine and download Minitool Partition wizard. It has a disk cloning tool you can use. This guide should help you along the way.

Read through the guide, quite comprehensive and I can't think of any additional questions. Thank you!