>>77009116I have 4 drives, all of which have been in my computer for 4+ years:
One 250GB SSD which is my boot drive (C:)
Two 500 GB HDDs (WD Blacks which have served me well the longest for 7+ years) (D: and E:)
One 1TB WD Black which is probably my most recent drive which I use for games. (F:)
Problem is, all of my drives are nearing capacity and I want to make more room. I bought two 4TB WD Blacks which finally went on sale the other day. I want to replace the F: with one of the 4TB drives. Would I simply hook the 4tb drive up via usb and just copy all the contents of F: over to it, turn off computer and simply swap the drives in the exact same SATA configuration? I imagine that being effective, but I'm not sure.
Question the second:
Say if I want to consolidate D: and E: into the other 4TB drive, I'd copy them both over to the drive by hooking that drive up to USB and copying everything over.
But what would be the best way to replace the drives? If I make the 4TB D: by replacing it with the existing 500GB drive, how would I get rid of the E: drive? If I simply remove that drive (since I already copied it over to the new 4TB), that would be getting rid of E:, so I'd now have
C: [unchanged]
D: [new 4tb drive with both old D: and old E:]
F: [new 4tb drive replacing old 1tb]
Side question:
When I got my 250GB SSD a couple of years ago, it replaced the 500GB HDD (which is now the D: drive), but I guess it was a lesson in fucking up, because even though I went and did a fresh Windows 7 reinstall, I kept some things open and running through the old C: (now D:) drive. It worked for the most part, but there were instances where I'd need to install or delete something (basically anything that would need to be altered in file locations), Windows would say that I did not have permission for it and I'd have to say Yes every time. I just want to make sure I can avoid such issues with this new HDD refresh.
