# New harddrive, how to copy?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2001, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-harddrive-how-to-copy/91581 "2001-11-05T10:07:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-harddrive-how-to-copy/91581/5 "2001-11-05T14:08:00Z")

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I used [Drive2Drive](http://www.fssdev.com/products/drive2drive/) for this purpose about a month ago and also make occasional backups with it. After duplicating the drive, I am able to make the new drive the master and boot successfully without reinstalling a single program, _including_ Windows ME.

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