Hi I am looking at replace a 2TB Seagate SATA drive with Crucial MX500 500GB Internal SSD and then put all my data onto the reformatted Seagate 2TB original disc.
Clearly the 500GB SSD will not accommodate all the data that is currently on the Seagate 2TB disc with only 450GB free.
So my plans is to (after making full backups etc.) to move all my data temporarily over to another external 2TB USB drive and re-point all the C:\Users\username\ documents, pictures, videos etc to that external USB drive.
Then using the Acornis True image tool from Crucial, move all the windows and other programs over from the Seagate 2TB to the new 500gb SSD.
When that is done I am assuming that the Data path to the external USB drive will still be active.
Once that is done I will then reformat the Seagate 2TB drive and move all the data from external USB drive over to the newly reformatted Seagate drive and adjust the C:\Users\username\ path accordingly.
Is this the way to do this or am I missing something? Or is there a better way to carry out this reconfig of my desktop disks?
Looking forward to any feedback and comments.
Mike
Clearly the 500GB SSD will not accommodate all the data that is currently on the Seagate 2TB disc with only 450GB free.
So my plans is to (after making full backups etc.) to move all my data temporarily over to another external 2TB USB drive and re-point all the C:\Users\username\ documents, pictures, videos etc to that external USB drive.
Then using the Acornis True image tool from Crucial, move all the windows and other programs over from the Seagate 2TB to the new 500gb SSD.
When that is done I am assuming that the Data path to the external USB drive will still be active.
Once that is done I will then reformat the Seagate 2TB drive and move all the data from external USB drive over to the newly reformatted Seagate drive and adjust the C:\Users\username\ path accordingly.
Is this the way to do this or am I missing something? Or is there a better way to carry out this reconfig of my desktop disks?
Looking forward to any feedback and comments.
Mike