How to Transfer the Installed Programs, Data to a New Hard Drive
| Workable Solutions | Step-by-step Troubleshooting |
|---|---|
| Move Programs | Step 1. Launch Qiling Disk Master and select transfer mode; Step 2. Select apps and another drive to transfer...Full steps |
| Move Program and Data Together | If you want to move programs and data like documents, videos, musics, and more data, here we will introduce...Full steps |
| Move Program, Data, and Os | Now we could usually use programs and data on the new hard drive. If you want to know how to move OS...Full steps |
"I get a new disk, because of the old disk has a bad sector and strongly affects computer speed. I want to move the programs from the old hard drive to my new SSD, for I don' have the installations discs. Is that possible to transfer some programs to another hard drive? "
Cloning the entire old drive to the new hard drive, which can transfer files, system, programs, and settings to something else. If you want to have a clean system installation, move some basic programs, and not clone the whole disk, you can try Qiling Disk Master. It allows us to select specific applications like Windows Office, CCleaner, and Skype to transfer. Besides applications migration, Qiling Disk Master can directly transfer important photos, documents, purchased music, movies to another hard drive on the same LAN or indirect transfer without the network.
How to Transfer the Installed Programs, Data to the New Hard Drive
If you replace the computer and plan to move the files from the old hard drive to the new computer, you could run Qiling Disk Master on two computers and choose "Via the connected network" to move.
How to move programs from one drive to another
Here we introduce a better migration way after upgrading the hard drive to a larger one on the original PC - App Migration.
Step 1. Launch Qiling Disk Master and select transfer mode
On the main screen of Qiling Disk Master, go to "Tools and utitlities" page and click "System clone" to continue.
Step 2. The system partition will be selected by Automatically and click "Next".
Step 3. Select the SSD or HDD as the destination disk and click "Next".
Step 4. Preview the layout of your target disk. You can also click the disk layout options to customize the layout of your target disk as you want. Then click "Proceed" to start migrating your OS to a new disk
Step 5. Click "OK" after check warning message. The data and partitions on the target disk will be deleted. Make sure that you've backed up important data in advance. If not, do it now.
In addition to the automatic transferring tool, we also introduce the manual way, which is a bit complex than the third-party software.
The steps are as follows:
Step 1. Open File Explorer > Browse the root on the new drive > Right-click, choose New, and then click Folder.
Step 2. Open a File Explorer window > Head to the original drive folder > Copy the folder containing programs file > Turn to the other File Explorer window and then open the folder you created > Paste the programs files to the new drive.
Step 3. Delete the program files in the source drive.
Step 4. Choose File on the ribbon of File Explorer > Choose Open command prompt as administrator and confirm the user access control prompt.
Step 5. Type mklink /j
If you move the program from C to E, you can type "mklink /j C:\Program Files\My Program E:\Program Files\My Program" and press Enter.
How to move program and data together from one drive to another
The former method can relocate program and program-related files. If you want to move programs and data like documents, videos, musics, and more data, here we will introduce another way - "Via the Image Transfer of Qiling Disk Master".
The method can transfer applications to the new hard drive on the same computer. The Backup & Restore aims to create a backup file that contains what you want to relocate, and then you can restore the files to another new drive.
How to transfer program, data, and OS to another drive
Now we could usually use programs and data on the new hard drive. If you want to know how to move OS to another drive, recommend you to try Qiling Disk Copy, it can migrate system and clone entire hard drive without data loss. About the licensed programs, we need to deactivate the specific programs on the old computer and activate them on the new hard drive.
Conclusion
Thanks to the powerful tool of Qiling Disk Master, you can transfer the program to a new hard drive via App Migration. For meeting all your needs, the Image Transfer perfectly matches the moving programs and data to another drive. Moreover, if you want to relocate program, data, and operating system, the Qiling Disk Copy is worth trying.
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