Recent content by Stephan.A

Noted, thank you for your help

After booting from only the new drive do I still have to go into the BIOS to change the boot order ?

thank you very much for your help, i will come back to this thread if I encounter any more issues

First question would be how to install the driver for the new ssd, second thing would be that only one of the SSD's is sata, so I can't swap the cables around, and lastly can't I just use the disc management tool from windows to simply format the old drive instead of using a 3rd party software ?

My new drive is a 500GB SSD and my old SSD is a 1TB sata ssd with about 300 GB of consumed space, so the size doesn't matter in this case since i am not copying from a smaller drive to an older drive. My motherboard is the B450 tomahawk max from MSI

Okay in that case would i be able to clone my old drive onto my new SSD and then wipe/format my old drive ?

My ideal outcome would be to only have the operating system installed on my boot drive, while all of my files and apps stay on my old drive (the one that now has the OS installed on it)

I have now backed up my files to a flash drive, so can I now use the windows troubleshooter to reinstall windows onto the new drive, and if yes will that delete the old partition off of the old drive ? Last question would be how i could decide where my program installations go ?

I am going from an ald sata SSD to an M.2, I know this sounds dumb but I don't want to clone my whole drive because I want the stuff like games and applications that I don't use that often to stay on that sata SSD

In that case can I just not use the windows installer again, basically reinstalling windows but just onto another drive ? my problem is that I do not want to spend all of my time trying to get all of my programs back because the only thing kept is my files. Also will reinstalling windows using...

I was wondering, I just bought a new m.2 ssd that I was planing on migrating my OS to, but i was wondering if migrating will do the same as cloning, leaving me with 2 drives in my pc that have an OS installed on them, or if only the OS is going to be moved, and my files will stay on my old drive.