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Clone vs disc & partition For new f data drive

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In win 7 , i have a boot drive and have 3 1 Tb data drives. I want to replace one of THE full (photo files) drives with a 4 Tb drive. IT's easy to swap drives in caddies. I could pull THE e drive put new 4 Tb drive in THE sata slot temporarily to either clone or disc/partition from THE f drive. Then i'd move that new drive to THE f slot an d put THE e drive back in. Does that make sense? Should i clone or disc/partition to move THE files. Will Cloning leave me with a smaller partition on new large drive ? Then i'd have to create another "g" partition on iT to store more files. Ideas? Hope this doesn't too loonie.

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If this is only a data disk (not OS on the disk to boot from), don't clone and don't backup. Simply copy the files using Windows Explorer. That will be both faster and simpler.

Thank you. THE reason I thought Cloning was preferable is because iT preserveres drive architecture beter than simple copy.

Thank you. THE reason I thought Cloning was preferable is because iT preserveres drive architecture beter than simple copy.