I did similar recently when moving to a bigger SSD, using the free tools available in W10.
Following will work if the new drive is larger than the partitions being moved.
1. Create Windows system image, which will include the essential boot partition, and any recovery partition. Also will give you option of creating a boot CD/USB.
2. Restore the image onto the new drive. (ensure old hard drive is unplugged to avoid mistakes of overwriting old drive until sure new one works ok. )
3. If the recovery partition placement interferes with ability to extend new primary partition to utilise rest of new disk space, delete it using 'diskpart' (presuming the recovery stuff is of no real use now using a different drive and have more up to date system image as a restorable backup).
https://social.technet.microsoft.com...w8itproinstall
4. W10 will auto register now they keep the key assigned to the hardware, which is unaffected by hard drive changes.
Only gotcha was making sure the image backup was on a network drive accessible via the Windows boot process. Ended up using a spare USB drive of suitable capacity.
Following will work if the new drive is larger than the partitions being moved.
1. Create Windows system image, which will include the essential boot partition, and any recovery partition. Also will give you option of creating a boot CD/USB.
2. Restore the image onto the new drive. (ensure old hard drive is unplugged to avoid mistakes of overwriting old drive until sure new one works ok. )
3. If the recovery partition placement interferes with ability to extend new primary partition to utilise rest of new disk space, delete it using 'diskpart' (presuming the recovery stuff is of no real use now using a different drive and have more up to date system image as a restorable backup).
https://social.technet.microsoft.com...w8itproinstall
4. W10 will auto register now they keep the key assigned to the hardware, which is unaffected by hard drive changes.
Only gotcha was making sure the image backup was on a network drive accessible via the Windows boot process. Ended up using a spare USB drive of suitable capacity.
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