Could I remove EVERYTHING on my new laptop's C drive? Then copy and paste everything from the old laptop's C disk to the new empty one. Is this a bad idea? Will it corrupt system settings, etc.? I want to replicate all of the crucial settings/apps/files from one laptop to another.
Copy and paste is a straightforward way to move data from one location to another, which works perfectly for file duplication, like Word documents, PDF files, Excel files, Powerpoint files, etc. But copy and paste doesn't work for a hard drive migration, because it won't copy configurations, settings, etc., data on a disk.
If you want to transfer data from a C drive from one laptop to another, cloning is the best solution. Professional disk cloning software, EaseUS Disk Copy is one of the recommended solutions for this task. Here are the steps to clone the C drive from one laptop to another using EaseUS Disk Copy:
By following these steps, you can successfully clone the entirety of the C drive from one laptop to another using EaseUS Disk Copy.
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