Replace Hard Drive with SSD and Use Old Drive as secondary drive

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Hi I have a question which i'm sure should be easy but i want to make sure i do it right. I have Dell XPS 8900 Desktop, Windows 10, intel i7-6700 with 16 GB Drive, 2 TB hard drive. I just cloned my hard drive and replaced it with a New Samsung evo 850 500 GB ssd which i will use just for my Operating system and programs. All went well in my installation and setup. My old drive is now set up as my secondary drive. (C drive is the new SSD drive and D drive is Old 2TB drive). I have a 2 part question

1. I want to keep original operating system and Programs on my Old original Hard Drive as a back up just in case my Samsung ssd drive ever crashes - i could just revert the drives and boot up from old drive. How can i partition the old D 2tb Drive so i can keep the old file safe and use the second partition just for my files, video, music etc..

2. How can i move my Document folder from my new Samsung ssd C drive to my old D drive to save files to my old drives new partition once i create it ?

Any help in simple steps would be much appreciated.

thanks in advance.
 
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First, go to Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools>Computer Management, and click on Disk Management. You will see the SSD's partition(s), and the HDD's partition(s). Look for the HDD's biggest partition, and right-click 'Shrink'. Shrink the partition by hitting 'Enter'. The partition you just shrunk will have approx. 37GB free space. You will see a very large 'Unallocated' space. Right-click in it, and click 'New Partition'. Choose 'Primary Partition' as the partition type, and NTFS as the partition's filesystem. Click 'Next'. Name the partition 'Backup'. Enable file and folder compression and do a quick format. Click 'Next'. Click 'Next' again. Waiiiiiit, and boom! New partition! And for moving the user account...

helpmetoday

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Thanks for your fast reply, I already cloned and installed the drives. All is good in that dept. So i guess the correct question is how can i partition the empty space on my D drive using Windows 10 without deleting my old files.

and for second question i want to move my document files from C drive to new partition on d drive
 
First, go to Control Panel>System and Security>Administrative Tools>Computer Management, and click on Disk Management. You will see the SSD's partition(s), and the HDD's partition(s). Look for the HDD's biggest partition, and right-click 'Shrink'. Shrink the partition by hitting 'Enter'. The partition you just shrunk will have approx. 37GB free space. You will see a very large 'Unallocated' space. Right-click in it, and click 'New Partition'. Choose 'Primary Partition' as the partition type, and NTFS as the partition's filesystem. Click 'Next'. Name the partition 'Backup'. Enable file and folder compression and do a quick format. Click 'Next'. Click 'Next' again. Waiiiiiit, and boom! New partition! And for moving the user account folder, here's a link:
http://winaero.com/blog/move-the-users-folder-in-windows-10-windows-8-and-windows-7/
 
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