Best Practice for transferring OS (windows 7) to another hard drive

Hello,

I have 3 x Dell Optiplex refurbished office PC's running windows 7, they came with refurbished Hard Drives (180GB), these drives have served a purpose to be fair and been fine, however I have noticed that my PC after quite allot more use is getting a little slower and I can hear the drive clunking away when it does anything tasking.

I have to sometimes use Photoshop which seems to be the most intense, it works fine but I can see the performance over time only going one way (down hill).

So my question is what is the best practice of transferring a hard drive to another hard drive.

I will be ordering SSD drives, small ones there is no worries for space on these.

Cheers all.

Mick

I always used one of the disc cloning programs when I used to do this years ago. You're getting an exact copy of what's on your old drive so there should be no problems. Just copying and pasting from an old drive to a new one is a BAD idea.

Hi mick done this a few times myself when migrating OS to SSD..
here is a great page with free disk cloning software..
i have always used PC-disk clone.


P.S i have uploaded pc disk clone software full to downloads.

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?resources/3228/

P,M sent

I use Acronis True Image.

When I received my Samsung SSD 850, I just plugged it in internally, it came with software to transfer from HDD. I then reformatted the HDD and kept it in as a spare storage drive.

Caddies are available, but as mine shows not always required. Mind you, the space must be bigger on the SSD, lol.

Yep another one here using Acronis True Image.

EaseUS was another piece of cloning software mentioned in a thread the other day.

Bang for buck, you can't beat an SSD for improving system performance.

(For what it's worth, a dedicated graphics card and a little extra RAM often helps Photoshop, too.)

little_pob said:

EaseUS was another piece of cloning software mentioned in a thread the other day.

Bang for buck, you can't beat an SSD for improving system performance.

(For what it's worth, a dedicated graphics card and a little extra RAM often helps Photoshop, too.)

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Not sure that a dell optiplex would handle a graphics card, would need to be really low power.

Thanks all for the suggestions

Mick