HDD to SSD? Is it simple?

[Jakester93]

I have several questions, and hopefully not that confusing! I am hoping you can clear it up to me, and if you can help, please try to be as simple as possible!

Here's the issue I'm facing:

I am most likely going to purchase my first SSD, probably a 120 or 128GB SSD. As of right now, I have two HDDs. I have Windows 7 Pro, all my applications and games are installed on that 1TB drive. On my other HDD, i have some games installed on that as well as recorded videos.

Due to the Windows 10 upgrade coming out soon, I wanted to have my OS on my brand new SSD. Though how do I go about that? I don't want to lose everything I have on the drive with Win 7 on it.

So my main questions are, how should I go about this? Should I install Windows 7 on my new SSD, and then upgrade it to Windows 10 from there? If i did that, would I lose any apps/games that were installed on the drive where the OS was located? (And how would i get Windows 7 off that 1TB drive?)

OR

Do I wait until Windows 7 is out on my HDD, and upgrade to Windows 10 from there, and then somehow, move it to the SSD? (And same thing, how would i do that, and get Win 7 off that 1TB drive as well?)

Or is there another option? Basically, I don't want to lose anything, and I want my OS to be on my new SSD!

ANY HELP is appreciated, if you need any more information, let me know. THANK YOU.

 

[Paul NZ]

If the SSD comes with a migration program (or has one on whatever site), use that. Altho I would get something bigger than 128 GB

And yes if you reinstall Win7 on the SSD, the programs you had on the other hdd wont be on it. Unless you reinstall them

 

[Evan7899]

If the SSD comes with a migration program (or has one on whatever site), use that. Altho I would get something bigger than 128 GB

And yes if you reinstall Win7 on the SSD, the programs you had on the other hdd wont be on it. Unless you reinstall them

I used the Samsung migration program and did not like it at all, some things were missing or not working properly and in the end it was just a not very fun experience, even after I converted the OS there was some issues in boot times, etc. I know it is very hard to do especially on your main PC but I would recommend a clean install. I am fortunate enough to have a WD network backup drive that I put everything essential on and when I did the clean install I just re-downloaded the games and took back the important files from the WD drive. And yes just as Paul NZ said I would definitely recommend at least a 250GB SSD. It will run out of space faster than you think, even with the HDD taking all other files. Another thing I did to ensure easy setting up the new OS was putting all of my installers for apps and programs in one folder and backing that up, that was you just go through and install everything again. Hope this helps.

 

[LCmatko757]

Well when you are installing win10 yust select the SSD to install on to.