How to move to a new hard drive without any loss and... nothing
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
With quite a long time de facto standard when cloning disks for different purposes, including to moving targets at a bigger hard drive on the expanses of the former Soviet Union remained Norton utility Ghost. It is considered to be a reliable tool, and probably not for nothing is worth one and a half thousand Russian rubles. For professional use is not critical money for a good tool, but in the case of personal use, the need for which arises every few years, is that the money that want to pay for Relocation?
But growing segment of the free software from time to time gives good tools for any computer-related work.
Meet - EASEUS Disk Copy. This product is a bootable CD that allows you to create a copy of the entire disc, or individual sections. And this tool is completely free.
So if there was a problem moving to a new hard drive in front of you (and it is sometimes necessary to do only because of the size, but also because of the speed), then you should perform a simple algorithm presented below:
- Download and burn to disc
- Turn off the computer and connect the drives to be involved in the process
- Boot from the CD (for it is sometimes necessary to go to the BIOS Setup, to enable booting from a CD)
- Copy the desired partitions to the new disk, or just clone the disk.
- Reboot or shut down your computer (or why - I'll explain later)
- a) You can reboot in the case of moving the OS and thus - change the system disk you should change the boot order in the BIOS, selecting a new hard drive as the primary.
b) You can turn off your computer and is connected or swap hard disks, or - to remove the old, if you will, in this case is no longer needed. - After booting, you should see your AXIS devoid of embarrassment.
EASEUS Disk Copy