HDD Cloning ?

[Mukessh]

Hey guys . I need your help . 

 

Right now , I have a 320GB WD Green which contains my OS , and now I want to transfer to OS to my WD Blue . How do I do so ? I'm a noob in HDD cloning , heard of it a few times , but never went into it . 

[whatthe_fuzz]

DONT DO IT! bad bad bad idea. moving C: drives can corrupt some registry files. unfortunately your safest option would be to install windows on your new drive 

[skullbringer]

do a system backup with windows backup, and reinstall windows from that safe file

[Mukessh]

DONT DO IT! bad bad bad idea. moving C: drives can corrupt some registry files. unfortunately your safest option would be to install windows on your new drive 

Not moving the files , cloning it . Or system backup ? 

[Mukessh]

do a system backup with windows backup, and reinstall windows from that safe file

You 100% sure that'll work ? 

And will it backup my whole windows with all my files / games or just the windows itself ?

[txus.palacios]

I am pretty sure that you could use something such as Clonezilla with no impact on the operating system at all to move from a drive to the other.

[algoat]

I had no trouble cloning drives. But it was a clone to a higher capacity SSD rather than HDD

[Classics]

I did a successful HDD to SSD clone with Acronis: True Image, it was really simple. It does cost money, but there are ways around that (If you know what I mean).

 

http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/?gclid=CNK8uvG60LgCFbLMtAodyWMACQ

[MrPete1985]

I have used Acronis once, worked great.

[BRiteBak]

I have cloned many OS drives using Hirens disk tools and NEVER had an issue, you should be right mate..

 

I booted from the hirens disk tools and used the linux based interface

[Glenwing]

Just download Clonezilla for free, burn it onto a disc, and boot from it... then follow the onscreen instructions.  It's pretty straightforward.

[ygohome]

I use Acronis True Image for my Windows backups.  I make regular image backups of my system drive (C:) and any other partitions on the primary drives.  

 

in your case I'd make a Clone using Acronis or similar.  I only use the images as a backup means.  When I move from an old drive to a new drive I clone to the new drive.

 

Clonezilla works great for my linux machines when I want to do bare metal backups (image backups) or clones.  But I've never used clonezilla for backing up or cloning  a windows machine before.  I'm sure it would work, just never tried it.  I mostly use Acronis for windows.

 

I don't know why someone on here said not to clone or image backup your C: drive.  I think they must've been joking.  How else are we to make backups if not by imaging or cloning the drive?   If my system drive dies I need be back up and running again ASAP.  I use my computer to bring home the bacon... I need it for my daily job.  I make regular backups of both my system and data drives.  The backups have saved my butt tones of times.  With cloud storage solutions backup and recovery is even easier nowaday.

 

but yeah, clone it.