- Aug 13, 2013
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I apologize if this is a repeat question, from looking through the forums I can find bits of answers to my questions, but not one topic that is the exact duplicate, and I'm afraid to screw this up!
I recently purchased a 120gb SSD for the MSATA port of my Lenovo y400 laptop. My intents are for it to house the OS (I'm running Windows 8), most of my programs, and a few important files. The rest will go on the preinstalled 1TB Hdd, that currently has all my files, the os, etc. I want to clone the HDD over to the SSD (I've managed to only use about 100 gb of the HDD, thus I ought to be able to clone the whole thing), then have my SDD do all the previously mentioned tasks. I've found several solutions to clone, that seems eaasy, but I'm not sure about how to seamlessly make the SSD the new drive for the OS and programs that were once housed on the HDD. From another guide I found a solution called Easy BCD, that will make the SSD the "windows drive".
My real question is, is there any way of setting up the SSD to be the windows drive, and to have the OS and the programs run off it easily once it has the cloned info, without installing a program? I imagine all this program is doing is editing some setting somewhere, so could anyone point me to a solution that doesn't require a program? It may be worth pointing out that re-installing windows and all the programs is really not an option for me! Thanks!
I recently purchased a 120gb SSD for the MSATA port of my Lenovo y400 laptop. My intents are for it to house the OS (I'm running Windows 8), most of my programs, and a few important files. The rest will go on the preinstalled 1TB Hdd, that currently has all my files, the os, etc. I want to clone the HDD over to the SSD (I've managed to only use about 100 gb of the HDD, thus I ought to be able to clone the whole thing), then have my SDD do all the previously mentioned tasks. I've found several solutions to clone, that seems eaasy, but I'm not sure about how to seamlessly make the SSD the new drive for the OS and programs that were once housed on the HDD. From another guide I found a solution called Easy BCD, that will make the SSD the "windows drive".
My real question is, is there any way of setting up the SSD to be the windows drive, and to have the OS and the programs run off it easily once it has the cloned info, without installing a program? I imagine all this program is doing is editing some setting somewhere, so could anyone point me to a solution that doesn't require a program? It may be worth pointing out that re-installing windows and all the programs is really not an option for me! Thanks!
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