HDD to SSD upgrade Windows 8.1
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Jonas Magnusson
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Install a clean version of win7 on the SSD then upgrade it to 8.1. Keep both drives plugged in to the pc and then you can install games& programs on the HDD.
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If you ONLY want to completely use the HDD as Storage and the SSD as OS i would suggest you to get a copy of Linux Mint/Ubutu/manjaro.
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If you ONLY want to completely use the HDD as Storage and the SSD as OS i would suggest you to get a copy of Linux Mint/Ubutu/manjaro.
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Note that you'll need to manually set up the hard-drives if you choose linux and those drives can never be separates again if not uninstalling linux.
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OK then.
Do a fresh install of the OS on the SSD.
Have only the SSD connected
Boot from your install media, and install
Let it run through the updates.
When all that is done, now connect the old HDD
Copy anything and everything you want off the HDD (your docs/music/movies/etc) to another location
Wipe the HDD of all partitions.
Create a couple of top level folders on the HDD - MyProgs and My Docs
Now you can install applications to whichever drive you want, and redirect your Libraries to 'MyDocs'
See this:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html
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USAfret, linux can be booted and operated from one drive whilst having the rest on another drive(if you want). Windows is similar to this but windows takes more space.
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I would go for windows if the SSD is over 50GB+.
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I would go for windows if the SSD is over 50GB+.
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Yes it can. I have a dual boot on my laptop, and have run many, many Linux + Windows systems. I have a 15 year old Dell laptop that dual boots between Windows 2000 and PuppyLinux.
Linux as an OS had nothing to do with what the OP asked.
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Ideally, yes. Copy all your personal, critical data elsewhere. Either the cloud somewhere, or another drive.
The wiping of the HDD is simply to prevent future conflicts.
It currently has the Windows OS, and a boot partition. You want to get rid of all of that. And deleting the 'Windows folder' is not nearly enough.
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Clouds are slow and can be accessed by other people some time so try the shrink/expand method to use the same drive as backup drive. If the SSD can store all the HDD's data without going over 90% of usage i recommend that instead.
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