Question How to Migrate Windows 10 from HDD to Nvme

[inoku]

Is it possible to somehow migrate your windows to another drive without having to reinstall windows etc?

Would appreciate any knowledge upon this as my windows is on HDD

Nvme: Corsair Force MP600 1TB

CPU: R9 5900x
GPU: RTX 3070 Suprim X

 

[USAFRet]

Entirely possible.

How much space is consumed on the current HDD?
What motherboard?

Please show us a screencap of the current Disk Management window.

 

[inoku]

Entirely possible.

How much space is consumed on the current HDD?
What motherboard?

Please show us a screencap of the current Disk Management window.

Motherboard: MSI B550M-A Pro


Currently i have all my games stored within the NVME, Always can free up some space.

 

[Lafong]

I assume Disk 0 in that picture is your current boot drive.

Do you want to migrate it to Disk 1 shown in that picture (drive D)??

Or do you want to migrate Disk 0 to some completely different drive NOT shown in that picture? Not yet connected; maybe not even purchased yet.

Disk 1 has a lot of stuff on it, close to 800 GB...what that stuff?

 

[inoku]

I assume Disk 0 in that picture is your current boot drive.

Do you want to migrate it to Disk 1 shown in that picture (drive D)??

Or do you want to migrate Disk 0 to some completely different drive NOT shown in that picture? Not yet connected; maybe not even purchased yet.

Disk 1 has a lot of stuff on it, close to 800 GB...what that stuff?

So Disk 1 is the Nvme,

Disk 0 is the HDD Which has my windows 10.

Disk 1; has all my games basically - which i can get rid off.

I just want to know how to migrate my Windows from Disk 0 to Disk 1.

Yes i know i will need to free space, pls don't judge. xD

 

[USAFRet]

Whatever is on your D drive, the NVMe, WILL be wiped out in this process.
Move that data elsewhere. Or simply delete it.

The consumed space in your C drive and partition is just fine.

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
[/end ignore]

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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[inoku]

Whatever is on your D drive, the NVMe, WILL be wiped out in this process.
Move that data elsewhere. Or simply delete it.

The consumed space in your C drive and partition is just fine.

-----------------------------
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
-----------------------------
Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
[/end ignore]

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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Thank you!

Last question,

Would this software allow me to keep my files and only choose to migrate windows?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z939daHclxY&t=354s&ab_channel=Britec09

 

[USAFRet]

I've not watched that video, but any vid or software that purports to migrate "only Windows" is badly misleading.

It can't split it out like that.

The steps and software I posted above will migrate everything from one drive to the other.
Windows, application, files, etc, etc.

Everything.