Question Question on putting boot files on new hard drive

[shanvhere]

I don't know if this was asked, but is there anyway to put just the boot up files from my hard drive to the M.2 to boot up faster? Or I would have to do a fresh install on it.

 

[karenjoly]

You can make the m.2 drive into a drive identical to the hdd, the C drive . You clone the hdd to the M.2 drive. See Macrium Reflect Free version for the details.

http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk

 

[USAFRet]

I don't know if this was asked, but is there anyway to put just the boot up files from my hard drive to the M.2 to boot up faster? Or I would have to do a fresh install on it.

Yes, there are methods to do this. But...

What drives?
What motherboard?
How much space is consumed on your current C drive?

 

[USAFRet]

I don't know if this was asked, but is there anyway to put just the boot up files from my hard drive to the M.2 to boot up faster? Or I would have to do a fresh install on it.

And you don't put "just the boot files" on the SSD. You want the whole OS (and more) on it.

 

[shanvhere]

Ok the information answered my question. Thanks all