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September 17, 2014 11:41:07 AM

Okay i'm going to be getting a Samsung 840 EVO this week. Im going to leave the HDD in the rig for storage. Basically my question is what program should i use to do this processes? I've done some research and I'm worried about the alignment. Basically I've downloaded a program from intel "Data Migration Software" which is apparently made by Acronis. In this video this guy says that it will correctly align the drives http://

Are there other programs that can align the drives?
Any Ideas? I'd like to learn more about this.

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September 17, 2014 11:49:40 AM

Samsung comes with a software called Data Migrition Tool for this purpose, use that to clone your drive
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September 17, 2014 11:52:52 AM

Make sure you set the computer to boot off of the SSD and not the HDD. Otherwise the SSD isn't going to do you much good.
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September 17, 2014 12:20:25 PM

The Samsung software (or almost any data migration as they call it now, we used to just call it "cloning") works great. I will outline the steps basially here is what you do.
1. Install new SSD as secondary drive.
2. Download and install the Samsung software from the web site, its a small download.
3. Run the software. Follow the instructions, it will clone your hard drive to the SSD, alter the boot sector of the drives to set the SSD as the main boot drive, the hard drive as non bootable.
4 Restart, enter your BIOS.
Set SSD as 1 boot device, take the HDD out of the boot device order.
5. Reboot again to newly cloned SSD with HDD now being used as secondary drive.
Only 1 thing or catch, the data on your HDD must all fit on the SSD. If you have more data on te HDD than will fit on the SSD, clean it up first, save everything back to another drive somewhere before you start the change.
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September 17, 2014 12:54:55 PM

jitpublisher said:
The Samsung software (or almost any data migration as they call it now, we used to just call it "cloning") works great. I will outline the steps basially here is what you do.
1. Install new SSD as secondary drive.
2. Download and install the Samsung software from the web site, its a small download.
3. Run the software. Follow the instructions, it will clone your hard drive to the SSD, alter the boot sector of the drives to set the SSD as the main boot drive, the hard drive as non bootable.
4 Restart, enter your BIOS.
Set SSD as 1 boot device, take the HDD out of the boot device order.
5. Reboot again to newly cloned SSD with HDD now being used as secondary drive.
Only 1 thing or catch, the data on your HDD must all fit on the SSD. If you have more data on te HDD than will fit on the SSD, clean it up first, save everything back to another drive somewhere before you start the change.


Addendum: "The SSD needs to have at least 20% drive space free for the clone to go through properly."
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September 18, 2014 1:47:59 PM

The majority of my stuff is games off steam etc. So would it be easier to uninstall the games? correct me if i'm wrong but i dont think i can move them to my external. and my last question is, should i defrag my HDD before i do this to be safe?
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