Putting boot partition on storage drive

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mattplotas

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So I currently have Windows and some games on my 128gb SSD, and other big games and documents on my 1 TB hdd. I was running out of space on my SSD, so i bought a 256 gb SSD and sold my 128gb. but the 256 doesn't get in till next week, and I have to send my SSD by saturday. Is their any way I can move the boot partition to the HDD but still be able to access the other partition?
 
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Yes, you can manage this with Partition Wizard (or Partition Magic) by resizing (compressing) the storage disk partition and adding a partition. But, when you do this you should clone the 128 GB SSD and place that on the HDD. When you install the new 256 GB SSD you will have to do a clean install on the drive, with the HDD disconnected (otherwise the system will see the old OS and boot from it). After installation of the SSD you will reconnect the HDD and wipe out the cloned 128 GB partition and stretch the HDD back to its original size.

If I were you I wouldn't do this but, would create a restore file of the C: drive on the HDD, and wait for the delivery of the new SSD. When the new SSD came I'd use the restore function of...
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Yes, you can make a seperate partition for the OS (prefereably the same size as teh OS partition, then clone the ssd to the hard drive and be able to boot with it. You may need to rewrite the mbr on it, try using Easeus or paragon partition software to clone drive and rewrite mbr.

Then you will be able to reclone OS to new SSD.

Obviously you cant use the OS in 2 different computers as that is agianst microsoft license agreement.
 
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Yes, you can manage this with Partition Wizard (or Partition Magic) by resizing (compressing) the storage disk partition and adding a partition. But, when you do this you should clone the 128 GB SSD and place that on the HDD. When you install the new 256 GB SSD you will have to do a clean install on the drive, with the HDD disconnected (otherwise the system will see the old OS and boot from it). After installation of the SSD you will reconnect the HDD and wipe out the cloned 128 GB partition and stretch the HDD back to its original size.

If I were you I wouldn't do this but, would create a restore file of the C: drive on the HDD, and wait for the delivery of the new SSD. When the new SSD came I'd use the restore function of Windows to recreate the original OS disk on the 256 GB SSD. If need be, I'd use Partition Wizard to stretch the 256 SSd to its full capacity. It is simpler, safer, and you will be out of a computer for a few days. But you have to choose your own poison.
 
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mattplotas

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But would I still be able to access the other part of the drive? I thought windows only recognized the primary partition.
 
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mattplotas

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Ok, so i did the windows backup, and got the ssd today. So how do I restore if i cant boot anyways?

 
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