New SSD Upgrade, Moving windows

Olsnivy100

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Nov 15, 2014
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Hi,

A retailer quite close to my home has a deal selling a 250gb Samsung EVO SSD for $100 off and I am going to purchase it

What i am asking for is how I will move my OS to the SSD and use my 1tb HDD for mass storage for things like steam games

Thanks for your time

 
Solution


2 options, clean install or a clone operation.

Cloning - you must reduce the total used space on the C partition to below 200GB.
Then, any of the current cloning tools will do this. Easus Todo, Acronis Trueimage, Casper, Macrium Reflect.

Clean install - You'll need your install media and the valid license key. And the install files for all your other stuff.


Investigation:
How large is the SSD? 250GB
How much total used space is on the current C partition?
 


250gb SSD and there's about 350GB of data of my HDD

 


I would suggest cloning but you need to reduce the data on your HDD by 150GB or so.
 


2 options, clean install or a clone operation.

Cloning - you must reduce the total used space on the C partition to below 200GB.
Then, any of the current cloning tools will do this. Easus Todo, Acronis Trueimage, Casper, Macrium Reflect.

Clean install - You'll need your install media and the valid license key. And the install files for all your other stuff.
 
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