I have been pulling my hair out for two days, trying to figure out how to move my OS to my new 120GB SSD without delteing my 600+ GB worth of stuff from my pc. I can't find a single guide that relates to my situation, only more people with the same problem. The only answer I can get is a clean install of Windows onto my SSD, but like I said, I am not going to delete all of my stuff. I do not have an extra 1TB external hard drive lying around so I can't back my stuff up. Please somebody help.
Migrating OS to SSD.
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drtweak
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There is no other way. Buy a 1Tb external drive, copy everything off, uninstall everything you don't need, then clone. 120GB is good enough for OS and a few main programs. You can install your games and big programs to the other HDD but you HAVE to have either all your stuff MOVED off or just start from scratch. You just really need a temp drive big enough to hold all your info and MOVE it off your existing drive to clone it over. There is no program that ONLY clones your OS and nothing else. it is everything on the C Drive.
If your 1TB was partitioned so your C drive was smaller that would work but it doesn't sound like you are.
If your 1TB was partitioned so your C drive was smaller that would work but it doesn't sound like you are.
So to get this right, I get a 1TB external drive, just load all my shit onto it, which is about 600 GB, then delete literally everything except for what I want onto my SSD, use a program to clone it, and it is just magically done? I assume I'll also need to set my SSD with windows on it as my boot drive or something like that? Then load everything back onto my regular pc hard drive?
drtweak
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Yup. All you do is once it is cloned set the BIOS to boot from the SSD and not the HDD. Then once everything is good you can wipe the HDD so it is clean, move all your stuff back and also i would move your home folders. Real easy to do.
Open your User folder, right click on everything like documents music ect. Then go to properties, and then on Location just change the C to what ever drive letter your HDD is (I would make it D) then all your stuff will be stored on D:\User\username\foldername and not on the C drive.
I would turn off hibernation and also run disk cleanup, and make sure you select system files as well to get rid of unneeded windows update files which can fill up a few gigs. but just unisntall everything you can reinstall, hope that it is below 120GB (You really want to get it down to more like 80ish to give you breathing room) and then just reinstall all your new programs onto your hard drive.
Open your User folder, right click on everything like documents music ect. Then go to properties, and then on Location just change the C to what ever drive letter your HDD is (I would make it D) then all your stuff will be stored on D:\User\username\foldername and not on the C drive.
I would turn off hibernation and also run disk cleanup, and make sure you select system files as well to get rid of unneeded windows update files which can fill up a few gigs. but just unisntall everything you can reinstall, hope that it is below 120GB (You really want to get it down to more like 80ish to give you breathing room) and then just reinstall all your new programs onto your hard drive.
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