New Hard Drive

[g0rdn]

Hello everyone, I will be purchasing a new hard drive soon, and I was wondering how I could clone my C drive to my new hard drive. But before that, will my motherboard support the new hard drive? There will be links to my motherboard and the hard drive.

 

Hard Drive

Motherboard

 

Now, if it does support my motherboard, then how will I move all my files on my C Drive onto my new hard drive?  Thanks, everyone!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Any SATA device is compatible with any board that supports the SATA interface. So yes, your drive is compatible.

 

There are revisions of SATA, namely SATA(1), SATA2, and SATA3. All three backwards compatible and the only issue with running a SATA 3 drive on a SATA(1) board is that the SATA device will be running at SATA(1) speeds rather than native SATA3.

[Mira Yurizaki]

The only way a drive won't be compatible with your motherboard is if it uses an interface the motherboard doesn't already have. More or less.

 

Some partition tools like Partition Wizard/Magic can clone data over. Then there are tools specifically for this like Marcrium Reflect or Arconis True Image. Or you could reinstall Windows and move over everything in your %APPDATA% folder of the old drive to the new one after you've set up everything.

[g0rdn]

3 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The only way a drive won't be compatible with your motherboard is if it uses an interface the motherboard doesn't already have. More or less.

 

Some partition tools like Partition Wizard/Magic can clone data over. Then there are tools specifically for this like Marcrium Reflect or Arconis True Image. Or you could reinstall Windows and move over everything in your %APPDATA% folder of the old drive to the new one after you've set up everything.

After I clone the files onto another hard drive, then is it safe to delete the files from the original hard drive?

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 minutes ago, g0rdn said:

After I clone the files onto another hard drive, then is it safe to delete the files from the original hard drive?

Give it a week or two to verify your system is happy first.

[g0rdn]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Give it a week or two to verify your system is happy first.

Alright, thanks a bunch!

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, g0rdn said:

Alright, thanks a bunch!

If you clone and you end up with a booting problem (i.e., it won't boot Windows), that can usually be easily fixed. Assuming there were no problems cloning the Windows partition.

[g0rdn]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If you clone and you end up with a booting problem (i.e., it won't boot Windows), that can usually be easily fixed.

How will I do that?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, g0rdn said:

How will I do that?

 

[Eclypseon]

8 hours ago, g0rdn said:

How will I do that?

IMHO, the best insurance against losing data or corrupting the boot record after migrating is to disconnect the sata cable from your old drive while powered down, then start the system up again. If you can successfully boot and access your files... you're probably good to go. I'd still hang on to the undeleted files for a bit to ensure you're not missing/corrupted any files.