![]() You cannot just copy and paste the files to a new disk and expect Windows to boot from it, for a variety of reasons, primary among them being the other partitions that Windows needs on a disk to operate, such as one partition for the boot manager itself. In this piece, I am going to talk about how you migrate a working installation of a Windows 10 or Windows 11 operating system to a completely new disk. This applies to those wishing to move a Windows installation from an HDD to an SSD – which seems to be the most common reason for doing the migration. ![]() We will be using a software called Macrium Reflect 7 to do this. This is Spearblade’s Windows migration guide for Windows 10 and 11. It works for cloning a working Windows OS from any disk to any disk, regardless of its type and size. Disk numbers in the operating system start with 0, much like GPU numbering.Ī disk is the hardware like an HDD or an SSD that you connect to your motherboard.Let’s get the basics out of the way first of all. So, the first disk you have is Disk 0 and the second one is Disk 1, and so on. Note that once the migration is done using the following process, the drive letter of the partition or the disk that has it will change to C: from whatever it was before (as compared to before migration, when C: is likely your current Windows partition on your HDD).The current installation of Windows is on Disk 0. A disk can be segmented into multiple partitions, which are generally called “drives” in Windows. ![]()
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