Anyone familiar with Seagate's DiscWizard or disc cloning?

[spyros78]

Hi all,

I have installed a new SATA seagate internal hd on my pc. I need to create 4 partitions. I want to clone my old drive (including OS, files, apps) into one partition and use all other partitions for storage.

I am using Seagate's DiscWizard for the job but I'm open to other tools as long as they are open source.

Could you please help me with the procedure? I have managed to create the 4 partitions. I made my first partition as primary/bootable, since it will host my OS, and the remaining as logical but once I tried to clone my old drive into the new primary partition the Wizard asked me to delete the partitions I made earlier.

Am I supposed to create a disk Image instead? Is there a way I can have a bootable partition for my OS and another 3 partitions for storage?

Many thanks for your time!
sp.

[mr soft]

If I remember correctly,

Let it do it´s thing , it will clone your whole drive as is .

eg. old HD C: windows 20 gig , D: 60 gig data.
new HD C: windows 20 gig (maybe bigger ) D: 280 , 460 gig data , and so on, depending on the size of your new HD.

You can always go into admin, disc management later and make new partitions and sizes . I think this is the easiest method.
Just don´t delete your old drive yet, as you can always boot back onto this drive if you make any mistakes. Plus you will want to copy all Data on old HD D: to new HD D: F: ect
Afterwards you are going to have to go into bios, and check the boot priority so as it boots from new disk after cloning

Anyway if you make a mistake just format new drive again and start over

Ps I think I used Seagate Maxblast 5 when I cloned mine.

[spyros78]

Thank You!