New HDD/SSD help

[Jessew1089]

Hey guys im in the process for getting 2 new hard drives. right now i have 1 HDD (partitioned to C&D drives) and im upgrading to a SSD and a bigger HDD. heres my question, how would i go about copying my C drive from my original HDD to the SSD and my D drive to the new HDD?

 

[George Mulligan]

If your D drive contains only data (no programs), then its files can be simply be copied to the new HDD when you plug it in and format/partition it.

For the C drive, which presumably has OS and programs on it, the best idea is to "migrate" the C drive to your new SSD. Most SSDs come with software to allow you to perform this migration. I am familiar with Samsung's (which are top of the line SSDs by the way) software, and it is quite easy to use. If you don't/can't use migration software, you will need to do a clean install of Windows AND all programs onto the new SSD, which is of course a real pain.

 

[Jessew1089]

currently my C drive is used for windows and just a few other programs and documents. My D drive is where i have all of my programs/games installed... I am getting a samsung 850 evo SSD and a WD 1TB HDD. I know there are programs out there to help, i jsut have no idea which ones to use. what confuses me is i will have 3 HDD's so would i just connect one of the new ones and then copy everything and then unplug it and do the same for the second new HDD and then remove the original and install the 2 new ones?

 

[George Mulligan]

The migration software that comes with your new Samsung SSD will allow you to do what you need- migrate your OS and programs from the C and D drives to your new SSD.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/whitepaper/whitepaper11.html

 

[George Mulligan]

What motherboard do you have? If you have enough SATA ports, you can have all HDDs plugged in at once to complete the migration. You can then get rid of an unneeded drive or keep them all if you have the space.

 

[Jessew1089]

This is my current setup

GPU- Geforce GTX 970
CPU-intel core i5-4670k @3.40
MB-Z87-G45(MS7821)
RAM-16gb DDR3-Crucial
PSU-750w

the software that comes with my SSD will also allow me to transfer all the data from my current D drive to the new WD drive as well? Or will it only allow me to transfer data from the current HDD to the SSD?

 

[George Mulligan]

So you can simply plug in all HDDs (and SSD) at once, do your migration with the included software, and then either remove unwanted drive(s) or reformat them to use as secondary data drives.

 

[Jessew1089]

Ok, thanks!