Change HDD

Hi All

I have the following drives on my system

C: SSD - Operating system (windows 10 64bit) and some programs (the ones I am unable to store elsewhere)
D: HDD 1tb - Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Vidoes etc
E: SSD - Programs
F: HDD - 2tb Storage
G: External
H: HDD - 3tb Storage

As drive D is only 1tb I wish to change this to a 6tb WD Black HDD. The folders Documents, Pictures etc that are by default installed along with the operating system into the C drive. I then changed the location the target was the D drive. What would be the simplest way of replacing the new drive as drive D.

Regards

Kevin

Hi dalchina

So you are saying, do a disk image with Macrium Reflect

1. Save it to an external storage device
2. Shut down the system change D drive to the new 6tb WD Black HDD
3. Boot up the system. I take it that I will have to go into Disk Management and set the drive as D drive?
4. Restore the image to the D drive
5. Hopefully windows will find the Documents, Pictures, Video, etc folders

Regards

Kevin

KevinUK said:

3. Boot up the system. I take it that I will have to go into Disk Management and set the drive as D drive?

You should also make recovery media within Macrium so you can "Boot up the system" on those occasions when your C drive is kaput. If you can't boot--for whatever reason---you can't restore anything.

The recovery media will contain Macrium and you will be presented with the standard Macrium interface when you boot from the recovery media.

You should confirm that the recovery media WILL IN FACT boot your PC.

Well after doing a image of the old 1tb D drive, replacing the drive with a 6tb drive and restoring the image. I ended up with 3 partitions? I manage to get one merged with where the image was using the initialize. I do not get that option for the other partition, what I do not want.

Kevin

We need to see a screenshot of disk management, with the columns widened to show all the data:
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

3 partitions shown sounds right.

If you look in Disk Management, is one labeled "recovery partition", about 450 mb; another labeled "EFI system", about 100 mb; and the third labeled C??

Should be about like that.

I don't follow your last 2 sentences. You may have seen a bunch of "unallocated space" that you could add to C if desired.

My apologies, I forgot to add the screen capture. It is only a storage volume, please see the my original post.