This is my first time cloning my HDD to a brand new SSD. I am VERY new performing this.
I used Samsung Data Migration to clone my HDD to my SSD. Booted up with just the SSD installed into the port where the original HDD was and everything worked fine. After, reinstalled the HDD into the secondary port, thinking this would set the SSD to Disk 0 and the HDD to disk 1 . Went into BIOS and set the SSD as boot priority 1 and the HDD to 2. Rebooted and realized that the HDD is still showing as Disk 0 and the SSD as Disk 1 (not sure if the disk order matters?) The SSD is showing as primary so as far as it needing to be in Disk 0 or Disk 1 my computer seems to booting to it. (note: when booting, I do see the ASUS ROG loading logo run two different times before it boots)
In Disk Management,
HDD Disk 0 and has 4 partitions
(tried to delete the partitions, then extend volumes to make it one large drive)
[260mb Healthy(EFI System Partition)] [371.85 GB Unallocated] [499mb Healthy (recovery partition)] [558.91 GB Unallocated]
SSD Disk 1 HAD 4 partitions as well, but I was able to delete the data partition and merge it with the OS(C) partitions leaving me with 3 partitions on the SSD.
[499 mb Healthy(Recovery Partition)] [260 mb Healthy(EFI System Partition)] [OS (C) 476.18 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)]
My three most important questions.
1. What is the EFI system partition, do I need that? And if not, how do I delete it since I cannot from Disk Management it is grayed out. (note: I tried following a video on how to use the command prompt to delete this partition with an override command and I got an error stating that I couldn't remove this partition)
2. When I try to create a new simple volume on the either Unallocated HDD partitions, it creates a Gold Simple volume on the 371.85 GB partition (whether I try to make the simple volume on the 371.85GB unallocated partition or the 558.91 GB unallocated partition) and if i try to extend the 371.85GB partition to the 558.91GB partition I get an error that reads *There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation*.
Also, if I try to make the 371.85GB partition a new volume, then try to do make 558.91GB another volume, i get an error saying * the size of the extent is less than the minimum *
3. My goal is to use the HDD as a pure storage drive, on most videos i've watched on how to do this, the HDD drive shows as one partition that is completely unallocated, then they just format and it and it is done. THIS is what I am trying to accomplish.
(note: reading that I should set the DVD drive to boot 1 and SDD to boot 2, but in BIOS only SSD & HDD are boot options)
Sorry if how I am explaining this comes off confusing, as like I said I am very new to this.
Running Windows 10 on an ASUS ROG G751JT
SSD: SAMSUNG 850 pro 512 GB
HDD: 1TB HDD 5400 RPM
I used Samsung Data Migration to clone my HDD to my SSD. Booted up with just the SSD installed into the port where the original HDD was and everything worked fine. After, reinstalled the HDD into the secondary port, thinking this would set the SSD to Disk 0 and the HDD to disk 1 . Went into BIOS and set the SSD as boot priority 1 and the HDD to 2. Rebooted and realized that the HDD is still showing as Disk 0 and the SSD as Disk 1 (not sure if the disk order matters?) The SSD is showing as primary so as far as it needing to be in Disk 0 or Disk 1 my computer seems to booting to it. (note: when booting, I do see the ASUS ROG loading logo run two different times before it boots)
In Disk Management,
HDD Disk 0 and has 4 partitions
(tried to delete the partitions, then extend volumes to make it one large drive)
[260mb Healthy(EFI System Partition)] [371.85 GB Unallocated] [499mb Healthy (recovery partition)] [558.91 GB Unallocated]
SSD Disk 1 HAD 4 partitions as well, but I was able to delete the data partition and merge it with the OS(C) partitions leaving me with 3 partitions on the SSD.
[499 mb Healthy(Recovery Partition)] [260 mb Healthy(EFI System Partition)] [OS (C) 476.18 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)]
My three most important questions.
1. What is the EFI system partition, do I need that? And if not, how do I delete it since I cannot from Disk Management it is grayed out. (note: I tried following a video on how to use the command prompt to delete this partition with an override command and I got an error stating that I couldn't remove this partition)
2. When I try to create a new simple volume on the either Unallocated HDD partitions, it creates a Gold Simple volume on the 371.85 GB partition (whether I try to make the simple volume on the 371.85GB unallocated partition or the 558.91 GB unallocated partition) and if i try to extend the 371.85GB partition to the 558.91GB partition I get an error that reads *There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation*.
Also, if I try to make the 371.85GB partition a new volume, then try to do make 558.91GB another volume, i get an error saying * the size of the extent is less than the minimum *
3. My goal is to use the HDD as a pure storage drive, on most videos i've watched on how to do this, the HDD drive shows as one partition that is completely unallocated, then they just format and it and it is done. THIS is what I am trying to accomplish.
(note: reading that I should set the DVD drive to boot 1 and SDD to boot 2, but in BIOS only SSD & HDD are boot options)
Sorry if how I am explaining this comes off confusing, as like I said I am very new to this.
Running Windows 10 on an ASUS ROG G751JT
SSD: SAMSUNG 850 pro 512 GB
HDD: 1TB HDD 5400 RPM
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