Cloning Hard Drive

[DrunkPenguinz]

Recently I made a pretty big upgrade to my PC, and one of those upgrades was a 2TB Hybrid Hard Drive from Seagate. It's just been sitting in my PC, doing nothing, and I had a couple of concerns about transferring data over to my new drive, so here I am. The hard drive that I'm trying to clone is a 1TB Seagate Hard Drive, and the questions I have for this whole process: 1: What program should I be using? 2: If the hard drive is fairly full (transferring around 900GB), how long would it take? 3: When transferring data, does it truly transfer all data to the other? 4: After I finish cloning, I had planned as using the 2TB Hybrid as my main drive, and the 1 TB as my Secondary. When the process is complete and I see everything works, do I just go ahead and format the first drive? Also, how would I go about formatting?

I know some of these questions seem dumb, but I figured that it would be best to ask around and look dumb, rather than me messing up or being misinformed about something.

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

what os? id personally use dd in linux then expand the partitions.

 

once cloned you can format the old drive.

[DrunkPenguinz]

9 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what os? id personally use dd in linux then expand the partitions.

 

once cloned you can format the old drive.

I 'm running windows 10

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 hours ago, DrunkPenguinz said:

I 'm running windows 10

Then id use dd on a linux live disk.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I recommend using Macrium Reflect Free. I use a paid version but the free version is more than good enough for most people.

[Yvette222]

I'd like to recommend minitool partition software. The free version can meet your need: clone drive.