[SOLVED] How can I move all my data to a new Hard drive?

[Computer Novice 1225]

Hello. I currently have an 8 year old harddrive that is progressively getting slower as well as making some scratching noises and I want to transfer all my data including my operating system to a new harddrive so I can boot from a healthier drive, but I'm not sure how to do the transfer. I have my old harddrive installed as well as have my new harddrive installed but I'm not sure where to go from here.
The current drive is just a normal 1TB toshiba HDD (Pretty sure its this one https://www.newegg.com/toshiba-dt01aca100-1tb/p/N82E16822149382) and the new drive is a 2TB seagate barracuda HDD (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q).
530GB are occupied on the current drive, so space shouldn't be an issue.
The OS is just normal Windows 10.

 

[USAFRet]

To clone the whole thing, this...

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specifiy the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
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Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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[USAFRet]

The above is assuming the old still works.
A clone process may fail partway through, if/when it encounters some issues.

 

[Bob.B]

Hello. I currently have an 8 year old harddrive that is progressively getting slower as well as making some scratching noises and I want to transfer all my data including my operating system to a new harddrive so I can boot from a healthier drive, but I'm not sure how to do the transfer. I have my old harddrive installed as well as have my new harddrive installed but I'm not sure where to go from here.
The current drive is just a normal 1TB toshiba HDD (Pretty sure its this one https://www.newegg.com/toshiba-dt01aca100-1tb/p/N82E16822149382) and the new drive is a 2TB seagate barracuda HDD (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q).
530GB are occupied on the current drive, so space shouldn't be an issue.
The OS is just normal Windows 10.

You might want to rethink that hdd.
It's a data storage drive not meant for OS use.
This gets into smr/cmr ......it's weenie stuff don't go there.
If you can swing it shop for a ssd.