Question Buying an SSD. How should i go moving my windows installation to it?

[TumppuZi]

I ordered a Samsung 1TB 860 QVO and as it's my systems first SSD, i'd like to move my windows to it and have it boot from it as it should be a lot faster. The problem is i'm not totally sure how I should do it. I would want to move most of my prorams to it, which means I have to reinstall a bunch of them. Do I have to do something to the SSD to be able to boot windows from it? Does windows have something built in to perform this procedure? I currently have an 2TB HDD.

 

[fredfinks]

Samsung have a data migration tool on their website for this purpose.
Call me paranoid but i've never relied on this stuff (unless its a same/similar drive and doing a restore from a backup). New drive, fresh install. It takes time but i'm assured that all and well is in the kingdom.

As for windows recognizing a disk, new secondary disks have to be initialized in disk management. This shouldn't apply to you as youll be either doing a fresh install or it'll be initialized during migration.
If doing fresh install, unplug the HDD before installing windows. Plug it back in after install.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I ordered a Samsung 1TB 860 QVO and as it's my systems first SSD, i'd like to move my windows to it.
I currently have an 2TB HDD.

How full is the HDD?
Does all the data on it fit into 1TB SSD? If yes, then you can perform clone. If no, then some cleanup is necessary first.

For cloning instructions use solution from this topic:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ed-partition-os-from-a-hdd-to-an-ssd.3496932/