Upgrading Storage Capacity

[cap1769]

I purchased a Samsung 250GB SSD and a 1TB Western Digital HDD. I am trying to upgrade a current PC that is using a 500GB HDD.

My question is as follows:

Can I use the Samsung Migration Tool to put the OS on the SSD and then plug in the new HDD and transfer files over to it such as games, music, pictures etc?

I was told by a friend who recently did it that I'd have to shrink down my 500GB drive to fit the 250GB SSD because anything not transferred gets deleted? He also stated I can't put the new HDD (1TB) in, transfer files from the old HDD (500GB) and then OS transfer to the SSD because the SSD wouldn't recognize the new HDD (1TB) and I'd lose all my music, pictures, videos etc.

Is there any truth to any of this? What I need help on is how to plan this out so I don't lose data and get the desired end result (OS on SSD (250GB) with a game or 2 and the rest of EVERYTHING in the 1TB HDD). I was going to use Samsung Migration for this process.

Thanks for any help!

 

[CountMike]

When cloning a drive to another one, total data on first one has to be less than target drive has free space. Nothing on first drive will be deleted as cloning program will refuse to do it. That includes whole drive and all partitions on it.
Don't forget that windows needs at least 10GB of free space to function properly so most you can have on that HDD is 220GB of data, all partitions included.
By the time a 250GB drive is initialized and formatted it will have only about 232GB free space as C: drive.
Best course would be to install windows on SSD first, ad 1TB drive and your 500GB drive and just copy all files to 1TB. Whatever programs/games don't work from it, you will have to reinstall pointing to that HDD. If that 500GB drives is in proper working order nothing stops you from installing it too.