so i have an 1tb seagate hard drive on which my windows 8.1, games and other apps are installed but this drive isn't mine its actually my sister's, she doesn't want me to use her drive so i just bought a new wd blue 1tb hard drive, but then i got confused as to whether or not i should clone the old hard drive using western digital's acronis software
before i installed windows 8 to the seagate drive it already has windows 7 and xp installed, i did clean install but there are still remaining files that i can't delete (i think they're stuck) due to permission problems (trustedinstaller) i've tried everything that i can to delete them but to no avail, so i just gave up and left them there
now since i wanna clone my old hard drive, i'm afraid those windows 7 junk files will get carried over to my new hard drive, no way i'm gonna let that happen
so what do ? i'm thinking of doing a clean install of windows 8 on my new hard drive then backup all my games and apps then restore it to my new hard drive so the junk files won't get transferred to the new hard drive as it'll waste my space
thanks !
before i installed windows 8 to the seagate drive it already has windows 7 and xp installed, i did clean install but there are still remaining files that i can't delete (i think they're stuck) due to permission problems (trustedinstaller) i've tried everything that i can to delete them but to no avail, so i just gave up and left them there
now since i wanna clone my old hard drive, i'm afraid those windows 7 junk files will get carried over to my new hard drive, no way i'm gonna let that happen
so what do ? i'm thinking of doing a clean install of windows 8 on my new hard drive then backup all my games and apps then restore it to my new hard drive so the junk files won't get transferred to the new hard drive as it'll waste my space
thanks !