Hello,
I have been on toms the past few days here asking for help with installing a new SSD. Thanks to all that have been helping me so far.
I have acquired a 120gb EVO 850 to transfer my OS to and one or two programs. I would normally just clone but I have 700+ GB of data on my HDD I really don't want to lose. I have two 1TB hard drives that I will be keeping for the majority of my programs to be installed on and my data.
The problem I am running into is that I can't just go save my important files on my hard drive and reinstall windows on the SSD. I have a Dell OEM copy of Windows and no idea where my CD is (stupid me). I have already tried and the code is a no go. Luckily, I had cloned the old HDD onto my new HDD before I tried to install on SSD, so I can use that in interim. But that still leaves me with a mostly useless SSD.
Basically, I need to know how to scrub my storage the hard way. I understand it is less than ideal. I tried deleting as much as I could (specifically, documents, files, and programs) but I still had 121 GB of data on my HDD, so cloning it wasn't an option. What could that 100+ GB of files been? I ran CCleaner following the uninstall of all my programs and deleting my files. Someone mentioned Appdata as being a likely source, but I was not sure I wanted to mess around with those kind of files.
TL;DR
- have ssd and hdd
- missing oem install disk
- need to delete everything but os, even if its the hard way, WITHOUT reinstalling
- i mean EVERYTHING but system required files
Thanks tomshardware users!
Jordawgg
I have been on toms the past few days here asking for help with installing a new SSD. Thanks to all that have been helping me so far.
I have acquired a 120gb EVO 850 to transfer my OS to and one or two programs. I would normally just clone but I have 700+ GB of data on my HDD I really don't want to lose. I have two 1TB hard drives that I will be keeping for the majority of my programs to be installed on and my data.
The problem I am running into is that I can't just go save my important files on my hard drive and reinstall windows on the SSD. I have a Dell OEM copy of Windows and no idea where my CD is (stupid me). I have already tried and the code is a no go. Luckily, I had cloned the old HDD onto my new HDD before I tried to install on SSD, so I can use that in interim. But that still leaves me with a mostly useless SSD.
Basically, I need to know how to scrub my storage the hard way. I understand it is less than ideal. I tried deleting as much as I could (specifically, documents, files, and programs) but I still had 121 GB of data on my HDD, so cloning it wasn't an option. What could that 100+ GB of files been? I ran CCleaner following the uninstall of all my programs and deleting my files. Someone mentioned Appdata as being a likely source, but I was not sure I wanted to mess around with those kind of files.
TL;DR
- have ssd and hdd
- missing oem install disk
- need to delete everything but os, even if its the hard way, WITHOUT reinstalling
- i mean EVERYTHING but system required files
Thanks tomshardware users!
Jordawgg
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