The method I like to use is to set the new drive up manually. Assuming UEFI booting: use diskpart to create a 100 mb EFI system partition followed by Microsoft's recommended 16 MB MSR partition. Then use a program such as Macrium Reflect or MiniTool Partition Wizard to clone or copy the existing C: drive partition to the new drive. Then use the bcdboot command to populate the EFI system partition on the new drive with boot files from the newly copied OS partition.
The command sequence looks like this:
Code:
diskpart
list disk
select disk # <-replace # with the actual number for the new drive
clean
convert gpt
select part 1
delete part override
create part EFI size=100
format fs=fat32 quick
assign letter=a
create part MSR size=16
exit
exit
Now copy your existing C: drive OS partition to the new drive. Resize it during the copy if you want to fill the whole drive. Once the partition is copied, make sure to give it a drive letter using whatever software you use for the copying. Let's say you gave it drive letter E:. The last commands would be:
Code:
bcdboot E:\Windows /s A: /f UEFI
mountvol A: /D
exit
Restart your computer, but make sure to go into BIOS settings and set the new HDD as the first boot drive.
