[SOLVED] How to clone a Storage Drive?

[CL43]

So I know how to clone a drive already, I did it with OS. I have two drives the OS drive (I am not trying to clone my systems drive) and my storage drive, where my games and video clips are stored. I am trying to clone my Storage drive. I was wondering if it is the same as if I were to clone my OS? And if I were to clone it would it be okay to delete the old clone files in order to make games run on the new clone? This drive contains no OS so I don't think I would need to enter BIOS right? Would it be as simple as format new drive, clone the drives then delete the old drives' data? Like I said this is just a storage drive, I probably could copy it straight from files if I wanted to, but I could not find info about any differences in cloning a storage drive than cloning an OS drive. I also wanted to know if it would be safe to delete the old clone's files. The storage drive contains, video clips, steam games, independent games. I am pretty sure I can just highlight the files and use the move tab to move them to the new drive since it contains 0 Operating systems and I could just uninstall and reinstall them to the new drive

 

[CountMike]

So I know how to clone a drive already, I did it with OS. I have two drives the OS drive (I am not trying to clone my systems drive) and my storage drive, where my games and video clips are stored. I am trying to clone my Storage drive. I was wondering if it is the same as if I were to clone my OS? And if I were to clone it would it be okay to delete the old clone files in order to make games run on the new clone? This drive contains no OS so I don't think I would need to enter BIOS right? Would it be as simple as format new drive, clone the drives then delete the old drives' data? Like I said this is just a storage drive, I probably could copy it straight from files if I wanted to, but I could not find info about any differences in cloning a storage drive than cloning an OS drive. I also wanted to know if it would be safe to delete the old clone's files. The storage drive contains, video clips, steam games, independent games. I am pretty sure I can just highlight the files and use the move tab to move them to the new drive since it contains 0 Operating systems and I could just uninstall and reinstall them to the new drive

For clearly data only drive you can just copy contents or you can use one of these utilities to help you https://wethegeek.com/top-5-file-copy-utility-software-for-windows/

 

[USAFRet]

So I know how to clone a drive already, I did it with OS. I have two drives the OS drive (I am not trying to clone my systems drive) and my storage drive, where my games and video clips are stored. I am trying to clone my Storage drive. I was wondering if it is the same as if I were to clone my OS? And if I were to clone it would it be okay to delete the old clone files in order to make games run on the new clone? This drive contains no OS so I don't think I would need to enter BIOS right? Would it be as simple as format new drive, clone the drives then delete the old drives' data? Like I said this is just a storage drive, I probably could copy it straight from files if I wanted to, but I could not find info about any differences in cloning a storage drive than cloning an OS drive. I also wanted to know if it would be safe to delete the old clone's files. The storage drive contains, video clips, steam games, independent games. I am pretty sure I can just highlight the files and use the move tab to move them to the new drive since it contains 0 Operating systems and I could just uninstall and reinstall them to the new drive

With a tool like Macrium, it is no different.
Clone between any two drive, assuming the target is of sufficient size.

But for a secondary drive...nmo OS...cloning is not needed.
As long as the new drive ends up with the same folder structure and drive letter as the original, copy/paste works just fine.

Copy/paste, NOT 'Move'.

 

[geofelt]

Why do you feel you want to do this?

 

[Pc6777]

if its just files you can just copy and paste, no need to clone, if its a boot drive you want to replace or something more complicated then cloning may be necessary.