Or will they be lost due to the New HDD swap process? No need for boot changes in the BIOS.Īnd the second drive will automatically re-acquire its original partition letters (K:) (L:) (M) sizes etc. Start system which should boot from the New HDD with the same partitions, sizes, drive letters, and contents as the old Disk 0. Reinstall the second hard drive back into its original bay.

When process complete, shut down system, remove old Disk 0 and remove New HDD and move it to the old Disk 0 drive bay.

Question: Clone using Intelligent Sector Copy? Or Sector by Sector Copy? Run the Clone process Entire Disk 0 to New HDD. I assume I cannot Clone from within the Windows enviroment (Correct?) so Boot system with Recover USB to get into Windows PE. Question: Does the New HDD need anything done to it via Windows such as initializing, formating, partitioning before it can be recognized and go through the Cloning process? I propose to temporarily uninstall this HDD and install the new HDD target into this bay. I have a second hard drive installed for storage. Need confirmation of my understanding of the process and answers to some questions.įirst install Macrium Reflect Free onto the current Disk 0 and also make a Recover USB, then shut down the computer. The current Disk 0 (MBR – NTFS) shows 4 Partitions: (No letter) 500MB, OS(C:), Recovery(F:), Data(E:) – a Logical Drive Normal single boot set up, standard BIOS. Maingear desktop computer, Windows 7 Pro 圆4. I am looking to replace my main (C:) hard drive and mirror image Clone its contents to a new hard drive of the same size (both are 1TB).

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