Current Local Disk is sloooow -- How do I transfer windows and files to different disk?

[kevinakerberg]

Hi everyone,
The hard drive in one of my computers is dying a slow, painful death. It still works, but it takes forever to load anything and it should not. I have a spare drive I just don't know what to do to move Windows and files to the alternate drive. How do I do this? Or will I have to reinstall Windows? Thanks.

 

[game junky]

many ways to skin that cat - I would grab a USB to Sata adapter compatible with the type of disk you want to switch it to (if it's a solid state you're copying to, there are bunches of USB to SATA 2.5" out there). Some of those come with their own cloning applications (Apricorn has a nice easy application that copies just the used space) and there are plenty of free solution out there if it doesn't (Samsung SSD's come with a data migration tool, Easeus DiskCopy is free and easy as well). Once you have the data copied to the new drive, swap them out and test before you nuke the old drive