Laptop hdd into external device

[whatisluke]

I will be upgrading my laptops hdd drive with ssd and transform the old hdd into external drive with hard drive enclosure. I will be doing a clean windows install on ssd.

I've split my current laptop drive into two, so my windows is on a C drive and other programs (stuff i want to keep) on a D drive. Can i reformat the C drive and then merge it back into D? If not, what will happen when i plug the external drive with windows still on it to my laptop with new ssd and new os?

Thanks

 

[Chicano]

You can format and merge C into D without a problem... and even if you don't format it nothing can happen, the system files in C will be like any type of files... Infact you can format C later when you have the HDD running through USB, which makes it easier to format, merge etc. For that you can use the Windows Disk Manager but a third party Partition Manager is safer, more practical and graphically more informative and partition managers show a preview of each task to be executed so you can have accurate ideas of how pending tasks will turn out.


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