Comment on Does a cloned drive have the same drive letter as the original?
galaxi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No, it shouldn’t have the same the drive letter. It’s sort of similar to how your computer assigns a new drive letter to each USB drive you plug in. Drive letters aren’t permanent and are based on the order they’re plugged in (except C, which is usually your operating system).
Cloning is extremely easy to do on your own by the way. You can use something like Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Then you just open the program, click on the drive you want to copy, then click on the drive where you want the data to go. Just like if you were uploading files to google drive or something. Cloning just copies all of the files, drivers, operating system, other data, etc. It doesn’t literally “clone” the drive (like the drive letter). Let me know if you have any questions, I’d be happy to help :)
0Xero0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
the 250GB is currently my C drive and the 1TB is the D drive. I want to clone the 250GB to the 1TB and make it the C drive and the 2TB is the new D drive
it’s basically like this:
clone 1TB (old D drive) to 2TB (new D drive)
clone 250GB (old C drive) to 1TB (new C drive)
If I boot up the pc with the cloned 1TB drive installed, will it be automatically recognized as the C drive?
Golther@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Why not just make the new 2tb the drive? It would save you from a headache.
galaxi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes, the PC automatically assigns drive letters. The windows drive will get a C (but you don’t need to do anything). I’ll just add that after cloning, you’ll either need to temporarily disconnect the 250gb. Sometimes your PC won’t know which drive to boot from if you have two copies of windows attached (the 250gb and the 1tb). You can fix this later on by plugging in the 250gb externally and wiping it. But yeah, you don’t need to get hung up on drive letters, all that matters is that you have a hard drive with an OS like Windows for your computer to boot from. If you copy it over, and then start up your PC with the new copied drive attached, it should boot from it and that’ll become the new C drive.
0Xero0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
so correct me if I’m wrong: After I’ve finished cloning the drives, I can just install the 1TB in the CPU slot and 2TB in the chip set slot and everything will just works without me doing anything else? My program paths won’t be affected in anyway?
I’m wiping the 250GB to use it as an external drive anyway so it won’t be installed on the motherboard