Need help moving from a HDD to an SSD
- Thread starter Bexx33
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Format your hard drive.
Disconnect your hard drive.
Plug in the SSD.
Put the Window DVD into the optical drive or use an USB.
Install Windows onto the SSD.
After it has completed, install motherboard drivers and gpu drivers.
Install other necessary programs you want to use.
Ninite is a good website to collect important programs to install. https://ninite.com/
Connect back the hard drive.
Go to Disk management in Windows and right click on the hard drive and select new simple volume.
I don't recommend cloning tools since errors can pop up later on. Doing fresh install reduce the chances and if any comes up , you know it isn't caused by the migration.
Disconnect your hard drive.
Plug in the SSD.
Put the Window DVD into the optical drive or use an USB.
Install Windows onto the SSD.
After it has completed, install motherboard drivers and gpu drivers.
Install other necessary programs you want to use.
Ninite is a good website to collect important programs to install. https://ninite.com/
Connect back the hard drive.
Go to Disk management in Windows and right click on the hard drive and select new simple volume.
I don't recommend cloning tools since errors can pop up later on. Doing fresh install reduce the chances and if any comes up , you know it isn't caused by the migration.
vagrancyx
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.....what?
Most SSDS allow you to do a full migration of the entire install onto the SSD that why you don't have to reinstall windows per say. This is because they come with free software utilities. (Samsung and intel do for sure) If not there are plenty of free ones available such as rtools.
If all you want to do is a clean install...just do a clean install of the SSD.... plug in your HDD...move whatever u want backed up onto the SSD and then reformat the HDD for a clean slate for extra storage.....
Most SSDS allow you to do a full migration of the entire install onto the SSD that why you don't have to reinstall windows per say. This is because they come with free software utilities. (Samsung and intel do for sure) If not there are plenty of free ones available such as rtools.
If all you want to do is a clean install...just do a clean install of the SSD.... plug in your HDD...move whatever u want backed up onto the SSD and then reformat the HDD for a clean slate for extra storage.....
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