Windows 8 question

Mal Cullen · 9 Oct 2012 at 21:06

Hi all,

I have Win 8 installed on my machine on an old HD. I have just bought and installed a nice new 1TB Seagate drive ST1000DM003 which should be a lot faster than my old drive. I have partitioned the new drive and all is up and running. Question is what is the quickest way to move my OS to the new faster drive? I don't have a DVD drive on this new machine. Have I to start again with an installable copy of Win 8 on a USB drive and install it to the new drive as fresh install and the copy over things I want to keep from old drive then reformat the old drive and use it for back-ups / storage etc?

I think I have probably just answered my own question unless I am missing something and there is a quicker way???

Thanks all

MC

MikeB · 9 Oct 2012 at 21:10

you could clone it but as the install time is so quick nowdays why bother

trickynickyuk · 9 Oct 2012 at 21:21

i would just do a fresh install mate it will just be as quick

Mal Cullen · 20 Apr 2015 at 11:40

Fresh install all the way...

meandu229 · 20 Apr 2015 at 12:04

There is no reason you cant just clone the entire drive using something like Marcium Reflect which has a functional trial. You will need somewhere to keep the image though or a PC to do the cloning.
If you have a PC with 2 spare sata drives it should be just as easy as plugging both into the PC and cloning the drive across then your set.

ED209 · 20 Apr 2015 at 13:07

I have had to replace a laptop HHD recently at home and I downloaded windows 8.1 on to a USB stick, put in the new HDD and installed 8.1 from the USB stick. used the windows 8 key to activate the install and all was good again

I always do a clean install and copy over any documents etc after

KIA · 20 Apr 2015 at 14:52

Nice bumpage.