Clone HDD on HP 1215T

[BevGoodGirl]

HELLO Experts    ( you all do a good job )

GOAL :  clone Seagate 2TB drive onto BRAND NEW Seagate drive  ((  old drive is 6 years old and Seagate Barracuda had

lawsuit regarding failures.    I have THREE and none have failed but putting in a fresh HDD is good idea))

Method  Intended:

Plug new drive into a SATA/USB interface to access new drive on exisitng Hp 1215T desktop via USB 3.0 port.

Clone  drive using EaseUS Prt Master which I have used much but never did a clone.

--- --- --    ( Previous clone advise on other postings was to use SEAGATE clone software).

I have no way of doing a non-WINDOWS OS methodology was was also suggested in other postings on

cloning.

Eject cloned drive from USB interface.

Open computer and remove old drive and insert new drive and START-UP.

QUESTIONS --------------------------------

I suspect EaseUS will show the new clone drive as not having the correct C (OS) partition label on the new

cloned drive.   It will probably show up as H drive or  K drive or something.

Do I need to change the drive letter back to C drive before installing in comuter ?????

Should  I use EaseUS to clone or Seagate software to clone ???

If the new cloned drive does not function  aok inside of the computer connected to internal SATA, then

I can just put the old drive back in and all is well ?   right ?    can anything go wrong via a swap ?

Old drive has a C partition and a D for factory restore and  E for stuff and an A partition for other stuff.

[old_geekster · Accepted solution]

@BevGoodGirl, welcome to the forum.  Thank you for the compliment!!

I have cloned a lot of HDD/SSD's over the years.  The easiest way that I have found is to leave the old hard drive HDD connected as it originally came with the computer.  Connect the new HDD to a different SATA port on the motherboard.  Install the cloning software on the old HDD and run it.  It will ask for the Target drive and you choose the new HDD.  Once the drive has been cloned, you should shut the computer down.  Then, you can disconnect the old HDD from the motherboard and connect the new HDD to that SATA port.  This should be 0 or 1 for the boot drive.  Now, the computer should boot to the new drive without making any changes to the settings in the BIOS.

Here is a very good guide for EaseUS: https://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/clone-hard-drive.htm

It doesn't have the same steps that I described, but it is similar.

Please click the Thumbs up + button if I have helped you and click Accept as Solution if your problem is solved.

[BevGoodGirl]

thanks Mr Geekster

Your comments are clear.

I worry about the Drive labels not being correct after the cloning but gonna try your method instead

of the  SATA/USB interface  ( which has turned out to be very useful for looking at old drives and transfering

data).

If you could respond to 

HP 1215T changing the boot order  ----   TOPIC  I wrote ----that would be nice.

I seem to have a hybrid  UEFI-BIOS thing going on  WIn7Home  HP 1215T.

You may be able to clear up some confusion relative to the facts stated but you are on WIN10 sys now which

probably maybe runs on pure UEFI. Trying to learn to boot from USB and DVD.  I have only experience

with reloading images with TRUEIMAGE and have never had a    c-r-a-s-h   so I better learn how to

STARTUP  when a big problem may happen.

I almost bought a 160se during B-Friday with water cooling; wish I had now-I missed a great deal

waiting for a DIDN'T HAPPEN better deal. 

[old_geekster]

@BevGoodGirl 

Statement:

I almost bought a 160se during B-Friday with water cooling; wish I had now-I missed a great deal

waiting for a DIDN'T HAPPEN better deal.

Answer:

I can't tell you how many times I have had a product in Newegg's, My Wish List, waiting for a better deal only to find that the good deal was gone.  As you no doubt read in my "Signature", I am using a 160se.  It is a great computer.

You don't have to worry about drive labels.  If you clone the old HDD to the new HDD and disconnect the old one from the system, when you connect the new HDD to the SATA port 0 or 1, this will become C:\.  If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.  This is why we are here.