Windows 11 Install/Backup Advice

[Terbinator]

Hello everyone,

Basically I'm looking for some advice on how I can migrate my current OS build to a holding drive whilst I swap around my NVME drives.

Currently:

C:\ - Windows OS drive - 512GB drive - reduced the foot print down to 120GB.
F:\ - 'Game drive' - 1TB in total and purely used for games, nearly full but have enough room for the above Windows OS size.

I have a new 2TB drive I want to put it but CBA with the full W11 install and thought I'd be able to clone/image my OS disk to a partition on the F:\ drive and carry on as normal. My 2TB NVME I'm installing would then become the 'game' drive and the 1TB my 'OS' drive.

I'm not sure if I'm Googling this wrong as I can't find a clear guide and was assuming it was quite straight forward with something like Macrium or maybe even Windows own tools?

[Jonj1611]

What drive is it? A lot of drives come with tools to do just that

[Terbinator]

What drive is it? A lot of drives come with tools to do just that

Cheers - looks like WD offer Acronis True Image as a download. I'll look in to it tonight.

[jim]

Yeah I've used Macrium Reflect for this, it was incredibly easy.

[Saracen999]

Yeah I've used Macrium Reflect for this, it was incredibly easy.

Likewise. I ended up with a 4-PC Reflect licence as I think the software is very good indeed (as a full backup solution, not just the imaging capability, the latter being available in the free version but the full file/folder backup needing a paid licence. Caveat - there are other very good options too, both for imaging and as a full backup option. After lots of poncing about trying things and making up my mind, I opted for Macrium. One reason was excellent customer/tect support.