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How to transfer all installed programs from an old to a new HDD

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October 13, 2014 2:46:41 AM

Hi there,

I have been doing some testing of my new gaming PC (getting really rubbish scores on Valley) and have found that the really old HDD (about 8 years old SATA1) I have in there is probably slowing things down quite a bit, so I went ahead and bought a new WD black HDD. I was wondering how I copy everything from the old drive to the new, including the OS. Can I just clone the old disks to the new and then remove them? The thought of reinstalling everything sounds like a nightmare. Any thoughts on why I am getting such terrible Valley scores, are my thoughts of the HDD correct?

Really appreciate your help.

Spec:
FX8350
AMD R9 280 3Gb graphics card
Corsair Vengence 1600 16gb
ASUS sabertooth 990fx R2.0

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October 13, 2014 2:52:19 AM

Yes cloning the disk would do. Macrium Reflect is a good app to do just that. And yes it can be due to bad or old HDD, 8 years is quite a good amount of time, but what are the scores?
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October 13, 2014 3:31:26 AM

MeteorsRaining said:
Yes cloning the disk would do. Macrium Reflect is a good app to do just that. And yes it can be due to bad or old HDD, 8 years is quite a good amount of time, but what are the scores?


I cant remember off the top of my head, I think it was ~1000 with average FPS of 30 on ultra. Ill check when I get home from work. Thanks for your comment. I guess I dont have to play about with disk letters to make sure its reading from the right location, or does it not work like that?
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October 13, 2014 3:50:01 AM

Hi there Scott Thackrey,

If your primary HDD is not hooked up, then the letters on the cloned drive will match what you have on the primary HDD. You should not face any issues with that.
Macrium Reflect is a good choice. You can also check out Acronis True Image WD Edition: http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=...

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
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October 13, 2014 3:57:44 AM

D_Know_WD explained about drive letter well, you won't face issues there, and changing the letter from Disk Management is easy in case. Acronis is another good option.
Also, yes 1k score is a bit low, HDD upgrade however should not make a significant difference, have you checked your Read/write speeds with app like Crystal Disk Mark?
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October 13, 2014 4:36:28 AM

MeteorsRaining said:
D_Know_WD explained about drive letter well, you won't face issues there, and changing the letter from Disk Management is easy in case. Acronis is another good option.
Also, yes 1k score is a bit low, HDD upgrade however should not make a significant difference, have you checked your Read/write speeds with app like Crystal Disk Mark?


No I havent looked at that, will do. I just noticed that the slowdown during benchmarking was linked to when I could hear the HDD reading/writing. When the HDD made no sound I was getting ~45fps. So I hoped that buying a better HDD would maybe solve it. Probably also the graphics card which I am not as impressed with compared to my older GTX750. I used to be Nvidia all the way so decided to try out the AMD R9. I am regretting that now! Ill get an nVidia again next time. Really appreciate all your help here.
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October 13, 2014 5:03:14 AM

Seems like HDD is wearing out, and R9 290 is a high end card, fairly good for maxed out gaming.
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October 15, 2014 12:03:15 AM

D_Know_WD said:
Hi there Scott Thackrey,

If your primary HDD is not hooked up, then the letters on the cloned drive will match what you have on the primary HDD. You should not face any issues with that.
Macrium Reflect is a good choice. You can also check out Acronis True Image WD Edition: http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=...

Cheers,
D_Know_WD


Morning,

So I used the Acronis software to clone the disk last night which went fine. The computer powered down and then I disconnected the old disk and powered up. It came up with the error that there was no operating system. I realised that I had to change the boot device in the BIOS so did that. Now it comes up with a BOOTMGR is missing error. Looking at other forums I have seen that I need to sort this out using a command under the windows setup CD. Ill do that tonight, so fingers crossed. Just wanted to say thanks again for your help.

All the best,
Scott.

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13 minutes ago

D_Know_WD said:
Hope that you will resolve this issue.

A couple of links related to this error message and possible causes:
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/boot...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2622803

Cheers,
D_Know_WD


So I tried using the command lines and that didnt work. So then I just let windows recovery repair itself and that worked fine. Ran the valley benchmark which increased the score from 1232 to 1865. Quite a difference just by replacing the HDD. Thanks again for your help.

All the best,
Scott.

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