How To Move Windows 7 Installation To A New Hard Drive ?

Is your old Hard Drive dying?, do you want to backup your data ?. Well you could backup your data by simple copy paste method but what about the Windows 7 installation ?. Reinstalling windows 7 is a tedious task, you will need to reinstall all your softwares and you will also loose all your personalized settings and you dont want that, do you.

We have a perfect solution to your problem, you can easily move windows 7 installation to a new hard drive without loosing any data or settings. The cloned windows 7 installation will work just like it did before without disrupting your everyday work and moving the windows 7 hardly takes a few minutes.

Move Windows 7 to a new hard drive without loosing data

To move windows 7 installation you need a free partition manager software and use the copy partition method to safely clone windows 7 to a new hard drive. The Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition can also perform many other tasks, like resize/move, extend/shrink, create, delete, format, hide partitions, copy/clone disk, copy/clone partition, wipe hard drive, wipe partition, disk surface test, repartition hard drive without losing data etc.

Follow the step by step process below to migrate windows 7 installation with minimum effort. The partition copy wizard is a quick and easy way which will guide you through the process. Firstly you need to make sure that both the hard drives are connected to your computer.

1. The hard drive with existing windows 7 installation.
2. The hard drive to which you wish to move windows 7.

Cloning Windows 7 to a new hard drive

1. Download Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition – Freeware

2. Install and run Aomei Partition Assistant.

3. Click Partition Copy Wizard on the left menu

4. Select Copy Partition quickly => Next

5. Now select the existing windows 7 installation partition, normally its the C drive.

6. Select the destination partition to which you have to move windows 7, it should be located on your newly installed hard drive, (remember you need a fresh unformatted/unallocated partition equal to or greater than the existing windows partition for this, your can delete the destination partition through this software to convert the partition to unallocated space ) then click next.

7. The partition software will reboot your computer and the copying process will start to move windows 7 to the new hard drive.

8. After the completion, remove your old hard drive and boot from the new hard drive. Your windows will run just like before, preserving your windows 7 settings, files and desktop.

So this is a simple and quick way to move windows 7 32/64bit, windows 8 installation to a new hard drive with minimum effort and save yourself from the trouble of reinstalling windows 7.