[SOLVED] How do I move my Windows installation to a new SSD?

[princedragonis]

I have a Windows 10 on my HDD. I recently purchased an M2 SSD. I wish to boot my Windows from it and have all the apps on it. It is being shown as a drive. I wish to move my Windows to the SSD. A reinstallation is okay. My question is:

If I try to install a Windows 10 copy from a live USB by setting BIOS boot priority to the flash drive instead of the HDD's Boot Manager (therefore, without disconnecting the existing HDD from the motherboard), can I install a Windows on the SSD, given it appears in the disk selection window? Assuming I can, what will happen upon a restart, if I set BIOS boot priority to the SSD now? Assuming now I have two separate operating systems on different disks both connected to the same board, can I format the HDD's C Drive (of course, after moving any data and given I am okay with saying goodbye to my software) and make it a normal HDD partition?

Will this do the migration, sort of, that I am looking for, or am I missing something?

 

[princedragonis]

I'd like to do that. Do you mean this software by MHDD: https://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

 

[princedragonis]

2 pending sectors - that could be fixable.
Pending sectors get resolved by overwriting them.
You can do this with MHDD (scan with relocate option) or with Victoria software.

Can you please tell me how to fix these "unstable sectors"? Any link to the software is appreciated because the two names you gave are only "floppy executables".

 

[SkyNetRising]

Victoria is windows software.
Scroll down to bottom of the page. Download link is there.

Официальный сайт программы Victoria HDD/SSD

Скачать Victoria 5.37 HDD/SSD 2021 на русском языке. Ремонт HDD, SSD, NVMe, технология SMART на русском языке. Восстановление информации с HDD в г. Гродно.

hdd.by

With MHDD it's more complicated.

• 1. Download magic boot disk MHDD iso image.

HDDGURU: MHDD

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level IDE, Serial ATA and SCSI HDD diagnostics.

hddguru.com

• 2. Mount magic iso image
• 3. Download HP usb format tool

https://filehippo.com/download_hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool/

• 4. Use HP usb format tool to make bootable USB flash drive using mounted iso image as boot files source
• 5. Copy over contents of iso image to usb flash drive. Do not overwrite any files. Choose skip, when asked to overwrite.
• 6. In BIOS switch sata controller mode to IDE (after done with MHDD, you'll have to set this back to previous value).
• 7. Boot from prepared USB flash drive and use mhdd to run the program

cd mhdd​

mhdd /enableprimary​

• 8. Use command port to select drive to operate on
• 9. Use command scan to scan the drive. Set relocate=on , when options box appears.

 

[princedragonis]

Can you tell me the steps to fix the bad sectors using Victoria? I've installed it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you tell me the steps to fix the bad sectors using Victoria? I've installed it.

On Drive info section choose drive to operate on.
Go to Test&Repair section

Choose read mode,​

choose remap on error,​

run Scan​

 

[princedragonis]

Done. I thank you both for providing such a detailed guidance and I will condense this material in an article as well to those experiencing similar problems. I am booting from my SSD now, will format HDD C drive, and it's much faster!

 

[hockey3761]

Hello, I have an issue after following the steps, perceivably correctly.

I used Macrium to clone my C drive and pasted it into my new SSD. I did the boot order thing, removed my old SSD from the computer. However, it wont boot. It keeps kicking me back to the Bios. I have done this twice now and really frustrated, not sure what I am doing wrong.

I feel like I am following all of the steps in one of the first posts. I followed the steps in some youtube video that talks about the same thing.

One thing I did do during this cloning of the drives. When moving the original boot drive to the new drive, the new drive is larger. I used the AOMEI partition to take advantage of the new larger drive so I can use all that new space.

I am lost why it wont boot to windows.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello, I have an issue after following the steps, perceivably correctly.

1. Please start a NEW thread for this. Your situation is different enough.
2. Put the system back to original condition, and show us a screencap of your Disk Management window
3. You do NOT need to use AOMEI to change the partition size after the clone. You can do that directly in Macrium.