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I_AM_JOERY
By I_AM_JOERY
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So. Normally if I need a bigger drive I would just replace the old one with a bigger one and reinstall everything.
But this drive has to much on it.
Its a 1tb HDD that is completly full and I want to replace it with this 4tb one wich is in the mail.

Its not my boot drive just a secondary one. After I get it what do I do best? The plan is to have everything from the old drive be put on the new drive and use the old drive for other build.

But Do I just copy everything from the old drive indo the root folder of the new drive and will that be it? or do I need to do something special to make window think its that drive?

(Drive contains steam librari is why is ask)

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Should be pretty simple to do:

Copy all the data from the old drive to the new drive.

Pull out the old drive.

In disk manager set the new drive to have the same drive letter.

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6 minutes ago, I_AM_JOERY said:

So. Normally if I need a bigger drive I would just replace the old one with a bigger one and reinstall everything.
But this drive has to much on it.
Its a 1tb HDD that is completly full and I want to replace it with this 4tb one wich is in the mail.

Its not my boot drive just a secondary one. After I get it what do I do best? The plan is to have everything from the old drive be put on the new drive and use the old drive for other build.

But Do I just copy everything from the old drive indo the root folder of the new drive and will that be it? or do I need to do something special to make window think its that drive?

(Drive contains steam librari is why is ask)

You should use a drive cloning program, macruim is a good, you shouldn't just copy paste the files as you will miss hidden files.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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Ok i'll try the macruim thing first. gonna be bout a day till the drive gets here. I'll update on if it works or not when it gets here.

 

Update: YAY Drive got delivered.
Somehow my system would not recognize both the new and the old drive after plugin them in.
Rebooting a few times + reconnecting drive cables seems to fix that.
Now waiting on the slow process of cloning a 1tb disk with macruim. =D
 

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