Need help transferring OS to SSD

[Rage8725]

Hello, i just need some help transferring over my OS (windows 8.1) from my HDD to my SSD (Samsung 850 EVO). I only want to transfer that over using the Samsung data migration tool, but I do not know what file to select to transfer over. No media or anything like that needs to be transferred over. Just my OS and steam games. Thanks for any answers.

EDIT: I also read that the leftover media will be completely deleted from the HDD. That makes no sense. I want to keep the HDD for data and media storage.

 

[Suztera]

Before you clone make a system repair disc just incase you need access to windows recovery tools if you need to fit the boot manager.
The samsung data migration will clone the partition on your drive. Just select the partition contain the OS and anything else you want as long you can fit it on the SSD. The data is left intact on the HDD, nothing is deleted after cloning.

 

[Rage8725]

Before you clone make a system repair disc just incase you need access to windows recovery tools if you need to fit the boot manager.
The samsung data migration will clone the partition on your drive. Just select the partition contain the OS and anything else you want as long you can fit it on the SSD. The data is left intact on the HDD, nothing is deleted after cloning.

Well that's a relief. The only problem is the migration software is only allowing me to deselect files to transfer over. It's forcing to transfer everything else, but asks me to deselect media files and nothing else. Any ideas?

 

[Suztera]

Before you clone make a system repair disc just incase you need access to windows recovery tools if you need to fit the boot manager.
The samsung data migration will clone the partition on your drive. Just select the partition contain the OS and anything else you want as long you can fit it on the SSD. The data is left intact on the HDD, nothing is deleted after cloning.

Well that's a relief. The only problem is the migration software is only allowing me to deselect files to transfer over. It's forcing to transfer everything else, but asks me to deselect media files and nothing else. Any ideas?

How much space you used on the HDD? How much space you got on your SSD?

 

[Rage8725]

How much space you used on the HDD? How much space you got on your SSD?

I have used 294GB on my HDD and my SSD has 250GB on it. I would have gotten a bigger size but i was told it would be easy to just transfer over the OS. I only bought it for my OS and steam games. Should I delete all my steam games and whatnot? that wont solve the problem though because like I said, I only want my games and OS on the SSD.

 

[Suztera]

How much space you used on the HDD? How much space you got on your SSD?

I have used 294GB on my HDD and my SSD has 250GB on it. I would have gotten a bigger size but i was told it would be easy to just transfer over the OS. I only bought it for my OS and steam games. Should I delete all my steam games and whatnot? that wont solve the problem though because like I said, I only want my games and OS on the SSD.

You could make a partition on the HDD and move anything you don't want onto that.
You could uninstall any programs you don't need.
You can't choose what programs to migrate, you either migrate the whole partition with or without personal files, photos, videos etc .

 

[Rage8725]

You could make a partition on the HDD and move anything you don't want onto that.
You could uninstall any programs you don't need.
You can't choose what programs to migrate, you either migrate the whole partition with or without personal files, photos, videos etc

This was supposed to be easy hah. I thought it would be a click of a button and it would just transfer over my OS. Too easy. Should I buy a external HDD, back up the entire HDD, delete everything except for the OS, transfer it, and then put it all back on the HDD?

 

[Suztera]

You could make a partition on the HDD and move anything you don't want onto that.
You could uninstall any programs you don't need.
You can't choose what programs to migrate, you either migrate the whole partition with or without personal files, photos, videos etc

This was supposed to be easy hah. I thought it would be a click of a button and it would just transfer over my OS. Too easy. Should I buy a external HDD, back up the entire HDD, delete everything except for the OS, transfer it, and then put it all back on the HDD?

It is easy if the space you cloning to is within the limit of the SSD.
You don't have to get an external HDD, another internal HDD would also do as well and it will be faster transferring over SATA than USB.
You only need to delete stuff you don't want/need.

 

[Rage8725]

It is easy if the space you cloning to is within the limit of the SSD.
You don't have to get an external HDD, another internal HDD would also do as well and it will be faster transferring over SATA than USB.
You only need to delete stuff you don't want/need.

I get that, but then my SSD would be full of crap I don't want to be on there.

 

[Rage8725]

It is easy if the space you cloning to is within the limit of the SSD.
You don't have to get an external HDD, another internal HDD would also do as well and it will be faster transferring over SATA than USB.
You only need to delete stuff you don't want/need.

So I could make a partition on just the OS and transfer that to the ssd?

 

[Suztera]

It is easy if the space you cloning to is within the limit of the SSD.
You don't have to get an external HDD, another internal HDD would also do as well and it will be faster transferring over SATA than USB.
You only need to delete stuff you don't want/need.

So I could make a partition on just the OS and transfer that to the ssd?

WIth your current HDD, you can make a separate partition to put stuff you don't want or need so it does not get cloned over. You trying to reduce 294GB to under 250GB.
After you cloned, you can reformat your HDD and use that as secondary storage for files, videos, images and documents.

 

[Rage8725]

WIth your current HDD, you can make a separate partition to put stuff you don't want or need so it does not get cloned over. You trying to reduce 294GB to under 250GB.
After you cloned, you can reformat your HDD and use that as secondary storage for files, videos, images and documents.

Perfect, that makes it a little easier at least hah. So just move everything I don't want cloned into the new partition?And what file will all of my OS be under? just so I don't accidentlly not transfer that over hah

 

[Suztera]

Your OS is on your C drive.

 

[Rage8725]

So after I copy over what I want from the C drive to the new partition, should I delete it off of the C drive?

 

[Rage8725]

I give up, nothing worked. I'll wait until a 500gb one when it goes on sale. So difficult to transfer a few things.