Please keep us informed how you get on as I may want to do this myself in a couple of weeks.
Thanks,
Mike.
hi Mike,
If your drives are Seagate, go to their site and download the Hard Drive Cloner, then transfer it to a CD.
Leave your existing 'C drive' as is, connect the new drive to the 'D drive' cables. Change the Boot order to the CD drive as the boot drive.
Place the CD in the drive and start the PC.
Follow the CD menu instructions.
This will clone 'C' to 'D' bit for bit.
Fit the newly cloned 'D' drive into the 'C' Cabling, change the Boot back to 'C' and thats it.
Normally you would would upgrade to a larger capacity drive, but providing the total drive usage of the C drive is less that the size of the new drive it will do the clone OK.
To save time,before cloning, clean and prune the 'old C' remove all unused rubbish and then defrag.
If you are not a Seagate fan, I am sure the manufacturer must have something similar.
EDIT: finding link.
https://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index....toid=7add8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
EDIT: Its also a good idea to download from the web, 'Driver Grabber, or 'Drive Capture'
These programs will copy all the system Drivers into a Driver folder, copy the folder to a CD, then on reinstallation, point the installers to the CD.
Important EDIT:
Downloaded the latest version from Seagate its ' MaxBlast' , install it onto the existing Hard Drive and run it.
Use the 'Disc Utilities' option on the Maxtor MaxBlast menu.
No intermediate CD copy required