Alright, so I got myself a shining new 3TB HDD during black friday and finally had the time to sit down and to get it into my machine to breathe more space into my machine's storage capacity.
I didn't want to clone, because I don't need Windows 7 anymore as I have Windows 10 installed onto an SSD that I plan on using as my primary drive once this is all done. I just want to copy my data: all my games, photos, videos, etc off the old HDD and paste it all onto the new one.
So I got a USB 2 (I have an old case with USB 2 front ports) to SATA adapter and have my new HDD formatted and partitioned already. However, I can't figure this out. I have the fresh hard drive hooked up to the machine with the old one attached via adapter and the old hard drive is not recognized by the machine.
This is the same when the old drive is hooked up and the fresh one is linked via USB.
Both drives work, as both of them are detected by diskmgmt and BIOS.
What should I do here to get my C Drive from my old HDD onto my new one? Again, I don't want to move the OS from the old HDD onto the new one.
I didn't want to clone, because I don't need Windows 7 anymore as I have Windows 10 installed onto an SSD that I plan on using as my primary drive once this is all done. I just want to copy my data: all my games, photos, videos, etc off the old HDD and paste it all onto the new one.
So I got a USB 2 (I have an old case with USB 2 front ports) to SATA adapter and have my new HDD formatted and partitioned already. However, I can't figure this out. I have the fresh hard drive hooked up to the machine with the old one attached via adapter and the old hard drive is not recognized by the machine.
This is the same when the old drive is hooked up and the fresh one is linked via USB.
Both drives work, as both of them are detected by diskmgmt and BIOS.
What should I do here to get my C Drive from my old HDD onto my new one? Again, I don't want to move the OS from the old HDD onto the new one.