Operating System Transfer

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 12:26

The young lad's PC is getting a bit wheezy, and I'm trying to keep it alive with a few upgrades here and there.
The bottle neck at the moment is that it's running on an old machanical hard drive, which is showing some bad sectors. I'd like to change this to an SSD, but all the disk copy methods I've tried have failed - I lost a weekend to trying this, even put the old hard drive on my main machine to try there too.
Is there a standarad way of getting an OS transferred to a new drive without copying data directly? Sort of like asking the computer to install win11 to another drive with the settings intact rather than copy it directly?
The issue with a complete fresh install it involves a teenager with issues and recalling passwords

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 13:33

I tried several methods, I can't remember all the methods / tools, but it did include:

Seagate
Acronis
EaseUS
Windows

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 14:09

I do have an external drive that I can try this with... cheers

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 14:30

cool... we will give it a try this comign weekend and see how we get on. I will report back

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 15:44

It's not windows password... but all the other stuff like his Steam* account etc.

It might be Steam, it might be hotmail, or orhter multitudes of things... I tend not to question the teenager too much or things go backwards :eek:

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 15:55

Well, I hadn't expected that angle of discussion... and I'm not prepared to engage.

Littlenose · 6 Dec 2023 at 15:59

It's fair enough, and I'm hoping that this escapade we're going through starts the ball rolling.
It sounded like you were heading into parenting advice, which is something I'm not prepared to discuss here.
All good

Littlenose · 7 Dec 2023 at 13:32

thanks everyone... we will take a look and see waht we can do when he's next interested in wanting to try the new drive.