Transferring hard drive to newer drive, including Windows 8.1.

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GeekoSuave

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Hey, I was curious if there was a simple way to transfer all of my data on my hard disc to a newer SATA III drive, including my copy of Windows 8.1.

I figure with Microsoft being Microsoft that this would be no simple task, and it's something I've never attempted or experienced, but in case there is a way or anybody has some other helpful information involving hard drive transfers it'd be very appreciated.

Thank you.
 
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All hard drives, or most anyway, have free software you can download from their website. Retail drive kits used to come with this software on a cd, but I dont think they include that anymore. Anyway, the software will clone your current drive to the new one, set the new drive as the master boot drive, and change the old one to a secondry storage device. (this part is important, and something a lot of people dont realize when using one of those off-the-wall free cloning software programs. They either dont do it, or the user forgets to select this option, and then gets into problems later when the cloned drive mysteriously will not boot).
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aldan

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install the new drive and use a program like macrium reflect (free) to clone your existing drive to the new one.then go into your bios and set your computer to boot from the new drive.if you are keeping your old drive you can do periodic backups to it the same way. this way if something goes bad with the new drive you have an exact backup to go to.
 
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All hard drives, or most anyway, have free software you can download from their website. Retail drive kits used to come with this software on a cd, but I dont think they include that anymore. Anyway, the software will clone your current drive to the new one, set the new drive as the master boot drive, and change the old one to a secondry storage device. (this part is important, and something a lot of people dont realize when using one of those off-the-wall free cloning software programs. They either dont do it, or the user forgets to select this option, and then gets into problems later when the cloned drive mysteriously will not boot).
 
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