First time migrating to larger HDD on PC. I have a couple of questions before I start.

Anthony_R33 · Nov 27, 2016

Hello,

It's my first time migrating my OS + all programs and files in it, to a larger HDD. My OS is Windows 7 Pro.

I'm following this method: http://www.howtogeek.com/199068/how-to-upgrade-your-existing-hard-drive-in-under-an-hour/

(if you have a preferred/better method please let me know

)

My couple of questions:

1. Do I need to format the new HDD that I'm migrating to? (the larger Hard Drive), before I copy the clone to it.

2. Do I need to do anything in the BIOS (boot?) or move the SATA cords around after the migration?

Thanks!

drtweak · Nov 27, 2016

1) no
2) just make sure it is first boot device. either set in bios or make sure it is in the SATA 0 or SATA 1 port depending on your motherboard( sometimes 0 is 1 and 1 is when there is no 0)

Anthony_R33 · Nov 27, 2016

drtweak :

Thank you for the quick reply!

For #1, do I just plug the new internal HDD to a SATA port on the motherboard (and of course to a power supply)? Do nothing else? It will show up when time to migrate the cloned C: ?

drtweak · Nov 27, 2016

Yup. just plug in the drive and boot. it will show the partitions if any. Then download Macrium Reflect, then when you go to clone your existing disk you select the other disk as the target disk. It will wipe the partitions as clone. You can also go in and delete the partitions (In macrium reflect when you select target disk) and then copy over the partitions setup from the old drive and then expand the partition to the full size there or clone everything then go into disk management and expand the drive after.

Anthony_R33 · Nov 27, 2016

drtweak :

Thanks, I just finished but it did not seem to work. I'm only getting a black screen with cursor when I boot up with the new HDD.

For some reason, it recognizes my new HDD as F: Drive though.

drtweak · Nov 27, 2016

when you boot off your normal hard drive it doesn't matter what drive letter is given.

When you cloned it what did you do? did you manually select the partitions or the whole disk?

Anthony_R33 · Nov 28, 2016

drtweak :

I manually selected the partitions with maximum size

drtweak · Nov 28, 2016

Watch my tutorial on it. This is about uEFI copying but this will still go though about the proper way to clone a drive with Macrium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlZm5w99pGM

Anthony_R33 · Nov 28, 2016

drtweak :

Thank you, I will try that. I even tried Forensic Cloning and it still did not work.

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