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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
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