I'm using Windows 7 with an 850 EVO 1TB SSD
Hi. I recently bought an SSD to become my primary drive for games and loading things in general, and it's great. The only issue was having to clone about 700GB of stuff I already had on my HDD just to get the OS over. The reason for this is that I have a prebuilt PC, which came with Windows installed and I can't use the key on the side to download windows to, say, a USB drive and then install it from that. I'm simply not allowed to. So, I used Samsung Magician which requires enough space on your SSD to move every file from your HDD to that, including the OS.
My question is: if I format my SSD, will it also wipe the OS? The process of copying the files took pretty much all day so I'd rather not sit through that again. If so, my goal is to just have my OS and necessary files on my SSD and use my HDD as storage, so if someone could give me a good way of doing that I'd be grateful.
Thanks.
Hi. I recently bought an SSD to become my primary drive for games and loading things in general, and it's great. The only issue was having to clone about 700GB of stuff I already had on my HDD just to get the OS over. The reason for this is that I have a prebuilt PC, which came with Windows installed and I can't use the key on the side to download windows to, say, a USB drive and then install it from that. I'm simply not allowed to. So, I used Samsung Magician which requires enough space on your SSD to move every file from your HDD to that, including the OS.
My question is: if I format my SSD, will it also wipe the OS? The process of copying the files took pretty much all day so I'd rather not sit through that again. If so, my goal is to just have my OS and necessary files on my SSD and use my HDD as storage, so if someone could give me a good way of doing that I'd be grateful.
Thanks.
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