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[Answers found] Transfering files to new hard drive
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I've never done it before, so I want to make sure I don't screw anything up. Hard drive B(which is empty) has four times the room of hard drive A(which has windows and all my files). A is in NTFS format and B is in RAW. Pretty simply, I just want to get everything from A to B and then later wipe A.
I started to use HDClone and its asking me if I want to keep original sizes, do automatic adjustment, or free adjustment. I don't know what that is. I also don't know if the file system type makes a difference in the transfer, and its also asking if I want to overwrite during the transfer. The hard drive should be fresh though, so I don't know what its trying to overwrite.
Help?
I started to use HDClone and its asking me if I want to keep original sizes, do automatic adjustment, or free adjustment. I don't know what that is. I also don't know if the file system type makes a difference in the transfer, and its also asking if I want to overwrite during the transfer. The hard drive should be fresh though, so I don't know what its trying to overwrite.
Help?
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Haven't used that product, but from using other disk cloning/imaging software I'd think that "keep original sizes" means the new drive will have partition sizes that match the original partition sizes (with the remainder being unpartitioned space), "automatic adjustment" will resize the new partitions to take up the entire new disk (this is probably what you want if all you're doing is trying to upgrade the hard drive), and "free adjustment" lets you set the sizes of the new partitions to be made (which you may want to choose if there are recovery partitions on the source drive, or if you have your drive configured with separate boot and data partitions).
RAW means the target drive is unpartitioned. If you don't select anything I'd think the cloning software will just format the new partitions with the same file systems of the source partitions. If it wants you to select then use NTFS. The overwrite thing is just a warning, it's not even looking at the target disk, just letting you know if there is any data on it that it will be overwritten.