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Want to replace your old hard disk with a new one?

If you replace your old hard disk with a new one, you will have to reinstall Windows. By disconnecting the old hard disk temporarily, your personal data is safe. If you encounter problems you are still able to reconnect your old hard disk and boot from you old Windows. If you are satisfied with the new setup, you can reconnect the old hard disk as secondary hard disk or in an external hard disk case to transfer the personal data to the new hard disk.

My friends and I always face this problem when we try to upgrade our system.

How do I ever get the data in my old hard disk into the new one? Well, this article shows you how to do this. The simplest way is to use a drive copy freeware.

We will look at one of them and see how it works, so read on.

a. Choose a drive copy software

Before you start trying to copy drive from one hard drive to another, you need a proper tool. EASEUS Todo Backup is a good choice. It is a complete free solution providing backup to image and disk copy, regardless of your partition or even whole hard disk. This drive copy freeware is trustworthy and easy to use. You can also Mount the backup image file as a virtual physical partition to explore or copy files in it and check backup image file to make sure your system state/disk/partition can be restored successfully. See more features of this free backup software.

b. Install the new hard disk

Ok, let's assume you've just bought a new hard disk. You want to transfer your data, operating system and installed applications over to the new drive. To do this, you must first install the new hard disk in your computer as a slave hard drive.

c. Run the program and follow sections

Please follow the detailed step-by-step instructions to copy drive. Before that you may download and install a full version of this freeware and then start.

1. Launch the software and locate the "Clone Disk" in the main board or toolbar.