Hard Drive Migrating Help

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How do I move a hard drive with files in it and has Windows 10 to another hard drive that has games in it? So basically I have an old Seagate HDD and I want to move all of those files and Windows 10 to a WD VelociRaptor HDD that has games in it, but I dont want to lose the games. Thanks for any help
 
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Ok. Here's, how you can do this:
  • 1. First make sure Disk 1 pis partitioned in MBR (not GPT);
    2. Shrink partition D: by at least 98GB
    (used cpace in C: is 82.6GB plus some free space also is required, so add another 15GB);
    3. Create 500 MB primary, active, NTFS formatted, drive letter E: partition in freed up space;
    4. Clone C: to freed up space, assign drive letter F: (you can do this with minitool partition wizard free);
    https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
    5. fix bootloader files on E: (execute from elevated command prompt):
    • bcdboot F:\windows /s E:
    6. Shutdown your pc, disconnect old OS drive, adjust boot priority settings in BIOS and verify, you can boot up normally.
That's about it. Now...
Ok. Here's, how you can do this:
  • 1. First make sure Disk 1 pis partitioned in MBR (not GPT);
    2. Shrink partition D: by at least 98GB
    (used cpace in C: is 82.6GB plus some free space also is required, so add another 15GB);
    3. Create 500 MB primary, active, NTFS formatted, drive letter E: partition in freed up space;
    4. Clone C: to freed up space, assign drive letter F: (you can do this with minitool partition wizard free);
    https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
    5. fix bootloader files on E: (execute from elevated command prompt):
    • bcdboot F:\windows /s E:
    6. Shutdown your pc, disconnect old OS drive, adjust boot priority settings in BIOS and verify, you can boot up normally.
That's about it. Now you can reconnect your old OS drive and repurpose it for something else.
 
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I am not really a computer genius, but thank you and ill try my best not to mess up. If you could walk me through it, it would be better but if not its fine.
 

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So I already know that my VelociRaptor (Disk 1) is MBR which is step 1. But I don't understand anything from all the other steps, I'm afraid something bad is going to happen to my computer.
 

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It tells me enter the amount of space to shrink in MB, and it was already at 123076, should I just erase that and put 98000?
 

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So i put 98000 and said that there wasnt enough space on disk to complete this operation

Never mind, I put 100352 and it is working on shrinking it
 

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Never mind, I put 100352 and it is working on shrinking it
 

hassanabbas9146

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When I make the partition it doesn't ask me how much to put as primary
 

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It only says simple volume size in MB and its default is set at 100351 which is what I want, and it doesn't say anything about primary partition. So am I supposed to put 500 here: https://ibb.co/gLjJxo. And it seems like it has a 110 MB default primary partition size. On disk manager it says 98.00 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition)
 

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I managed to clone Disk C to the partition that I made but the system reserved partition shows which seems a bit off and i just researched and it said that its fine but just remove it from there with disk management (Change drive letter or path) : https://ibb.co/hJ5Lco. So should I format it and do the thing you told me to?
 
Everything looks good there. No formatting needed.
Proceed to step #5.
Open elevated command prompt by right-clicking on start button, choose "Command prompt(Admin)" and
execute command to fix bootloader.

And mark partition E: (new 500 MB bootloader partition) as active, if you haven't done that already. Right-click on the partition in Disk Management and choose "Mark partition as Active".
Post latest screenshot from Disk Management.
 

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Wait, you said to put the 500 MB bootloader partition as active, so E (500 MB system reserve) or F (98 GB partition) just to make sure and also can't I just turn off my pc and unplug the 160 GB HDD and keep the 300 GB to boot then format the 160Gb HDD or do I have to do the command prompt thing because people on youtube just unplug the old one and keep the new one to boot? One last thing, should I remove the label from E because its the System reserve?
 

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https://ibb.co/iNEAA8, E is located in the 300 GB VelociRaptor