Migrating OS from one HDD to another

jhonrox

jhonrox

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Hello guys,

I have a problem here, and any help I can get will be very much appreciated. My current hdd (in which os is installed) is showing really poor performance, and I have been getting warnings that its about to 'die'. So i bought another hdd and I just wanted to know if its possible to migrate the os to the new hdd. I really don't want to insall it all again as it will be too much hassle.

Thanks in advance! :)
 
jhonrox said:
Hello guys,

I have a problem here, and any help I can get will be very much appreciated. My current hdd (in which os is installed) is showing really poor performance, and I have been getting warnings that its about to 'die'. So i bought another hdd and I just wanted to know if its possible to migrate the os to the new hdd. I really don't want to insall it all again as it will be too much hassle.

Thanks in advance!
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should you Purchase a retail HDD it will come with Software to copy the contents of the old HDD to the new one.Otherwise You could purchase a copy of Acronis True Image to "Image" your HDD .
 
Just go to the website of the manufacturer of the new drive. They'll have a download you can install to transfer everything.

For instance, I bought a Western Digital SATA drive. I downloaded and installed DataLifeguard for Windows and connected the new drive. Launched DataLifeguard and cloned the drive. Shut down the PC, put in the new SATA drive, made sure it was recognized in the BIOS, rebooted and presto. New hard drive ready to rock.
 
jhonrox said:
Hello guys,
My current hdd (in which os is installed) is showing really poor performance, and I have been getting warnings that its about to 'die'. )
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what do you mean by 'IT'S'?

if you mean the HDD then your doing the right thing by cloning it.
but if the OS is giving you problems (poor performance) then won't cloning just move the problem from one HDD to another? i'll let the experts chim in here to correct me ;) but thats my 2cents...
 
OvenMaster said:
Just go to the website of the manufacturer of the new drive. They'll have a download you can install to transfer everything.

For instance, I bought a Western Digital SATA drive. I downloaded and installed DataLifeguard for Windows and connected the new drive. Launched DataLifeguard and cloned the drive. Shut down the PC, put in the new SATA drive, made sure it was recognized in the BIOS, rebooted and presto. New hard drive ready to rock.
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Does it have to be the same size and brand drive to do that?
 
liquidmonkey said:
what do you mean by 'IT'S'?

if you mean the HDD then your doing the right thing by cloning it.
but if the OS is giving you problems (poor performance) then won't cloning just move the problem from one HDD to another? i'll let the experts chim in here to correct me ;) but thats my 2cents...
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Are you serious? You're busting on the guy for not putting an apostrophe in ''it's'' yet you have several grammatical errors of your own. How about some capital letters at the start of a sentence? Feel free to ''chim'' back in with your response to my post.
 
Thanks a lot for all your replies guys. I have to say I didn't think of using a cloning software. What worried me was whether the OS would boot from the drive once its all done.

voyagerfan99, OvenMaster: Thanks for your suggestions. The new drive was OEM, and I didn't want to try Acronis True Image as I'd have to pay for that. So I went with the freeware XXClone and did the whole thing. Unfortunately, what I didn't want to happen happened! The OS wouldn't boot; I kept getting the message "Failed to boot from hdd. Load boot CD/DVD and press Enter"

I re-installed the OS anyway because I wanted to make a couple of partitions (to make space for Windows 7), so its all sorted now!



liquidmonkey said:
what do you mean by 'IT'S'?

if you mean the HDD then your doing the right thing by cloning it.
but if the OS is giving you problems (poor performance) then won't cloning just move the problem from one HDD to another?
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By 'IT'S', I did mean the hdd. But your comment about cloning the problem from one hdd to the other makes sense, could be right.



87dtna, thanks for your comments, its good to know that one gets backup from fellow members!

Thanks again for your time guys! :)
 
87dtna said:
Are you serious? You're busting on the guy for not putting an apostrophe in ''it's'' yet you have several grammatical errors of your own. How about some capital letters at the start of a sentence? Feel free to ''chim'' back in with your response to my post.
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are you trolling?
the OP mentioned 'IT'S' and to me it was unclear if they meant the HDD or the actual OS. how on earth did you translate what i said into a grammar lesson??????

seriously dude, if your not going help, don't post. forums don't need smart a$$e$ like you.
 
Okay ...
Let's just forgive & forget, shall we? :)

I use "its" more often than "it's", and I don't know if it makes any difference (my mother tongue is not English)
 
no worries, but i still don't see how you took my post as being a grammar lesson.
but whatever, the OP's problem is solved, well done!!!
 
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