Removing a SSD with OS on it?

westonCole · May 14, 2014

First off, thank you to anyone who could give me proper advise in my situation.

So what I'm looking to do is move my OS from my SSD back to the HDD so I can remove the SSD. Feel like it should be as straight forward as doing the opposite, but I'm being precautions before I take any steps forward.

Again thanks in advance, as I know most people don't typically due a downgrade like this

USAFRet · May 14, 2014

Assuming you have valid install media....take the SSD out, and install on the HDD.
Change around boot priorities as needed.

m4ntl3 · May 14, 2014

I would normally copy any files from the ssd that I want. Copy the os, users and the program files onto the main directory of the hdd and use it to boot.

bgunner · May 14, 2014

by doing so you will need to install the OS to the HDD by disk. You can make backups of the info on HDD first for best results and format the drive. If your info is already partitioned use an empty partition to install the OS to.

All programs will need to be reinstalled because they need to have the proper registry entry's to work correctly.

detrius · May 14, 2014

if you purchased your SSD, you probably got cloning software to move the hdd to the ssd in the frist place. If not, look at freeware like clonezilla. Unless you have some specific reason to reinstall the OS, don't bother doing it. Note that you will lose whatever was on the hdd when cloning the ssd to the hdd.

westonCole · May 15, 2014

bgunner :

Is there a way to not have to reinstall the OS? Trying to make this a quick job at work.

bgunner · May 16, 2014

you could clone the drive using a cloning program like clonezilla. http://clonezilla.org/

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