I am in the process of trying to add in a SSD drive that I bought. It is a Crucuial M4 512 GB. The drive I am using currently is a WD Black 2TB drive. I want to use the SSD as a boot drive and also to store applications while using my hard drive to store movies and music.
I didn't want to reinstall Windows and the such, so I'm using a 3TB WD External hard drive to store the data on while I copy part of the hard drive to the SSD as per what the below guide says.
http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
I tried copying my current drive to the external drive using EaseUS Partition Master, but it won't let me as the sector sizes are different for the drives. The current drive is 512kb while the external drive is 4096kb. Windows doesn't give me an option to format it to 512kb either. Furthermore, in the program, it lists my hard drive as having 4 different filesystems: NTFS, FAT32, Other, and Unallocated. Almost all the data is in NTFS though.
My question is how can I copy the contents of my old drive to this external hard drive. I can't find a way around this sector size issue.
I didn't want to reinstall Windows and the such, so I'm using a 3TB WD External hard drive to store the data on while I copy part of the hard drive to the SSD as per what the below guide says.
http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
I tried copying my current drive to the external drive using EaseUS Partition Master, but it won't let me as the sector sizes are different for the drives. The current drive is 512kb while the external drive is 4096kb. Windows doesn't give me an option to format it to 512kb either. Furthermore, in the program, it lists my hard drive as having 4 different filesystems: NTFS, FAT32, Other, and Unallocated. Almost all the data is in NTFS though.
My question is how can I copy the contents of my old drive to this external hard drive. I can't find a way around this sector size issue.
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