Cloning a Data hard drive.

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Hello, my WD Blue 1TB drive started making noises and I had no backup of the data, so I bought a new one. I would like to know how can i clone an entire hard drive. It has videos and games on it, including a OneDrive folder. Can I just change the drive letter in windows? I'm an advanced user, but I have never cloned a drive before.
What would be the best way of doing this? I have games on it, so technically i could just uninstall everything and transfer only the data I need and change the OneDrive folder manually, but that would require time to re-download all the games afterwards.
 
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For a secondary drive, you do NOT need to 'clone' it.
You can just copy/paste all into the new drive, and swap drive letters around so the new one is...
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For a secondary drive, you do NOT need to 'clone' it.
You can just copy/paste all into the new drive, and swap drive letters around so the new one is the same as the old one was.

1. Don't select everything at once. Go piece by piece.
2. Copy/paste, not Move.
 
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Sounds like a better idea, thanks. Would that copy all of the system/hidden files as well?
 
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Wait...is this the OS drive? (the C drive) Or a secondary drive?
 
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Secondary, nevermind. Sorry
 
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