So I am upgrading from a pretty old 1TB HDD to a 2TB HDD and a 500GB M.2 SSD. I haven't been able to find a really good explanation on how to transfer the data. I want my OS and some games on my M.2 while having the rest of my data on my HDD. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated.
[SOLVED] How to transfer data from old HDD to new HDD and M.2 SSD
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- Mar 16, 2013
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- You can't (easily) transfer "the OS and some games". Cloning does not work with the concept of "some".
- You likely have far more data space consumed than will transfer to a 500GB drive. (see #1)
- Cloning from SATA to NVMe can be problematic, even when everything else is perfect (which it is not in this case).
Strongly suggest a clean install of your OS on the new M.2 drive.
Then we can probably move things around as desired.
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