Cloning a hard drive and Windows

[krazykilroy]

I want to clone my Hard drive to a larger main drive, so that I don't fill up my Main drive.

If I clone my main drive, and switch them out, will Windows 8 see this as a major change, and decide to no longer work??

 

[Elixer]

Nope, it shouldn't make any difference.

 

[saeror]

What program do you use for this?

 

[denis280]

this is a good free one.http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/index.html

 

[saeror]

Thanks denis280!

 

[razel]

Check with the HDD manufacturer. The major ones include free cloning software for download. More recently, more have been limiting it's use to copy to the target HDD of the manufacturer only.

 

[bwbob]

Check with the HDD manufacturer. The major ones include free cloning software for download. More recently, more have been limiting it's use to copy to the target HDD of the manufacturer only.

Seagate/WD have one on their site under support that's basically a trimmed down Acronis true image - I've used it and it works fine and pretty simple

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Seagate/WD have one on their site under support that's basically a trimmed down Acronis true image - I've used it and it works fine and pretty simple

Features of the vanilla editions may have improved in just a couple years. But if going from a smaller disk to a larger target, they would be fine.

Last time I informed myself, you needed a paid license to something like Acronis (or any of several such programs) to take a large partition down to a smaller one if the file-space consumed was acceptable to the target disk.