My current 500gb hard drive has 4 partitions, and the C:/ and D:/ are not next to each other.
It is an upgraded Win 10 system.
The partitions are basically:
System partition (not a manufacturers - from Windows install)
C
System partition (tiny - I think this is the Windows Recovery Environment partition, so I have to keep it)
D
I am migrating to a 480GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. My goal is to have all C contents (OS and programs) on the SSD as a single C drive along with the necessary hidden system partitions. The D drive contents are going on the 1tb HDD (Pictures, Music and Data files - mostly).
Since the partitions are not next to each other, I cannot simply delete D and expand C. If I delete the small system partition between them, I lose certain Win 10 recovery environment features.
Thoughts on how to accomplish what I want?
My original idea was to backup the entire drive. Copy the D contents to the new 1TB. Delete the old D partition then clone the old HDD to the SSD. Would that give me one large C on the SSD?
Worst case scenario is a clean install of Win 10 on the SSD.
I'd like to avoid that if possible. I have a number of old utility programs that were free long ago when installed and I doubt I would ever find the installers again.
It is an upgraded Win 10 system.
The partitions are basically:
System partition (not a manufacturers - from Windows install)
C
System partition (tiny - I think this is the Windows Recovery Environment partition, so I have to keep it)
D
I am migrating to a 480GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. My goal is to have all C contents (OS and programs) on the SSD as a single C drive along with the necessary hidden system partitions. The D drive contents are going on the 1tb HDD (Pictures, Music and Data files - mostly).
Since the partitions are not next to each other, I cannot simply delete D and expand C. If I delete the small system partition between them, I lose certain Win 10 recovery environment features.
Thoughts on how to accomplish what I want?
My original idea was to backup the entire drive. Copy the D contents to the new 1TB. Delete the old D partition then clone the old HDD to the SSD. Would that give me one large C on the SSD?
Worst case scenario is a clean install of Win 10 on the SSD.
I'd like to avoid that if possible. I have a number of old utility programs that were free long ago when installed and I doubt I would ever find the installers again.
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