New Data Drive Upgrade Q


  1. Fantail
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    New Data Drive Upgrade Q


    Picked up a terabyte WD_Blue to replace the OCZ 240 (H drive). This drive is not a boot drive but I do have all my games & a bunch of programs & data on it. With only 20 or so gigs free - anyways the terabyte drive isn't necessarily faster but a needed upgrade.
    Since this is not a boot drive why not just do a basic partition - format and copy the entire disk. Then swap the drives & with management assign H to the drive. The question is will Steam, shortcuts or programs have a kitten with this plan on W10. Would utilizing Arcronis be a safer plan - thoughts?
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  3. pparks1
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    No reason to take an image and restore it. Just copy the data over.
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  4. Megahertz
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    Yes, just copy all files and folders.
    You must change the drive letters so that the WD has H: drive letter so that all links will point to the the WD drive.
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  6. Fantail
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    Well that was straight forward and a snap. Didn't even take that long to copy the data. Can remember back in the old NT/2000 days that would have been 1/2 a Saturday.
    Decided to use the old H drive as a back up until I'm confident with the WD_Blue. Then one fine day it'll be for another Linux install.
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