Managing partitions when installing new HDD

PShooter1337 · Jun 25, 2013

Hi there,

Right now, I have a single 1TB HDD with 2 partitions - I have Win7 installed on one of them, and have all my games installed on the other one (+personal files, etc.). I want to install a new 1 TB HDD to use as my Win7 OS drive, and keep all the games/personal files on my original HDD. How would I go about deleting the OS from the original drive and reinstalling on a new drive? Do I need to install Win7 onto the new drive before I delete the Win7 partition on the old drive?

Thanks

cin19 · Jun 25, 2013

You need install the OS into the new driver so that you can delete the partition containing the OS, because this the safty feature if you have only one OS you can't format or delete it.

You can use the "EaseUS Disk Copy Home Edition 2.3.1" to copy the win7 into the new HDD.
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/

spooky2th · Jun 25, 2013

You can clone windows to the new HDD. After cloning, take out the original disk and install the cloned windows in the first sata port and boot up to make sure everything is OK. Then you can install the original drive and hopefully windows will see both partitions so you can do what you want with them.

Or just install it from scratch. Take out the original drive and install the new HDD into the first sata port and do a boot into windows install with your install disk or usb drive.

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