Need to buy a bigger Hard Drive. Can I "copy" the entire system to it and use this old one as auxiliary?

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Starless And Everlasting

I've been runing out of space for ages, I have 3 external Hard Drives, but now it's really time to get a new Main Hard Drive. I'm afraid to have to install everything again in the new one, including Windows, Visual Studio, SQL Server, all my dev/analyst tools, all my games and apps, all the drives... That would really be close to impossible. Is there a way to tell Windows "hey, get out of that HD, you live over there now, you and all your little friends, vacate the old HD and move into the fancier bigger one" and then Windows will just go "ok, sure!" and I won't have to reinstall a single thing?

Or maybe I just reinstall Windows in the new HD and the rest is taken care for me? Because I think Windows may need repairs. I get a black screen sometimes (sound continues playing for a while, for example if I were watching a film, but input gets locked out and the screen goes black.... anyway, this is not the question I'm here to ask... I just want to know the easiest possible way of moving my entire system from 1 HD to another.

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