HDD File transfer

TheKDub · September 11, 2014

I have decided that I no longer trust my current hard drive as it is quite old and I believe is beginning to die, so I would like to move all my data + the os to a different drive I have, the problem is is that the drive I'm using now is 1TB, and the only other drive I have is 750GB.

I currently am only using about 390GB of space on the hard drive.

How would I be able to transfer all my files + the os to the newer hard drive without having to re-install windows?

brokencross · September 11, 2014

Wouldn't a cloning app work?

G1zmo · September 11, 2014

So cloning the drive will work but you have to split your current HDD so that you have a 750 GB partition. You can do that with Windows disk management in Windows 7 or 8. If you have windows 8 it can natively make an ISO (copy of everything) without a 3rd party app. Now I do not recommend this because if you have corrupt data it will still be corrupt when you copy it to the good drive. So to fix this you would need to reinstall windows unfortunately.