Moving OS SSD to USB enclosure

[Smilie]

Hi

Recently I upgraded my windows 8.1 OS SSD (OCZ vertex 3) to a evo 850

So I brought a PNY USB(3) to use the old SSD
as mobo doesn't have that many sata 3

Had some problems at 1st with the drive not initialising
but work suddenly now (no problems now)

Thing is I see 2 partitions
1 named system reserved which is empty and uses a small amount of space

Is this the system reserve that windows created?
Or part of the SSD memory management?

As I want to format the SSD
How should I go around doing it?

Repartition in disk management in windows and make it to 1 partition then format?

Or just keep the system reserve partition and just format the main partition?

Thanks for any help

 

[USAFRet]

So you had the OS installed on the OCZ
Then (somehow) you have the OS installed on the new 850 EVO
You want to move the OCZ elsewhere.

Does the system boot with the OCZ completely disconnected, and only the 850 EVO connected??

 

[Smilie]

My OS is working fine now

actually used Samsung data migration moving cloning the OCZ to the evo850
and the Evo 850 is working fine with the OS right now
had a slight problem with read write permission in windows at 1st
but after changing the permission it seems to be working fine for the time being
too lazy to reinstall the OS for the time being
will do it if I start getting problems

the OCZ is now in a USB 3.0 enclosure
at 1st it had problems initializing (didn't see drive in "my computer")
initializing it just fails
but it suddenly started working
and have no problems seeing the drive anymore

but I can see 2 partition on the OCZ drive
the old OS partition
and also a system reserve partition with 349MB

just want to know if i should repartition the drive
and connect the 2 partition before formatting

 

[USAFRet]

If the system is working fine from the new 850 EVO, then yes.
Wipe all the partitions on the old OCZ drive. Make one big partition. Use as needed.