moving windows 10 to a ssd from hdd

shanetemple14 · Feb 10, 2016

i will soon be buying a 64gb ssd to store my windows 10 operating.i only want my OS on here as everything else will be stored on my 1tb hdd but i have no idea how to transfer the OS to the ssd.just to be clear i want ONLY the OS on this drive

anyhelp will be appreciated thanks in advance

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 10, 2016

64GB isn't enough.

64GB is actually about 59GB

120GB minimum

Clean install and the 59GB will fill up real fast.

shanetemple14 · Feb 10, 2016

ok well that can be changed then to a 128gb,so how do i go forward with the question after that change?

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 10, 2016

OS should be clean installed , with just the SSD attached.

RunLuke · Feb 10, 2016

Reinstall windows, that's the best way to do it. Seriously, the best and easiest way, also just cleaning it up works wonders.

If it's a samsung disk they have a migration tool, it might work with other manufacturers too though.

Otherwise there are tutorials like this: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows

but you have to trim down the current os-disk to 64Gb if you clone (a lot less than the 64 actually, I'd not go above filling the disk with more than 50GB, so consider getting a larger disk if possible (windows has sleep-files and swapfiles etc that take up 2 x your amount of memory). 256GB is IMO a perfect size for just an os-disk, it'll drive you mad having to always WindirStat everything if you have only 64)

Barty1884 · Feb 10, 2016

Once Windows 10 is activated (from your HDD in this case), it's registered with your motherboard. You don't have to clone etc, you can simply attach the SSD, install Windows 10 (ensure you're installing the correct version/architecture), skip the requests for a license key and once you're online it'll activate.

USAFRet · Feb 10, 2016

As above, 120GB minimum. 250GB is better.

To have 'only' the OS on the SSD, you need to do a clean install. There are no applications I am aware that will move 'only' the OS.

However, having 'only' the OS is tossing away a lot of its potential. You really want the OS and most/all applications.
AV, temp monitors, other utilities, etc, etc, etc.

shanetemple14 · Feb 11, 2016

USAFRet :

ok well how about a program that will move my whole drive to the ssd including the windows installation?

Barty1884 · Feb 11, 2016

There;s many utilities, some of the SSD manufacturer's have their own software (Samsung Migration as an example).

I'd still recommend a clean install & reinstalling your programs over cloning though.

USAFRet · Feb 11, 2016

shanetemple14 :

It depends.
How large is the new SSD?
How much total used space is on the current C partition?
How much of that total used space is music/video/cat pictures?

shanetemple14 · Feb 11, 2016

650gb available out of 930gb on the drive couldnt really say how much of that is music/videos etc

shanetemple14 · Feb 11, 2016

if i bought a 500gb drive and stored all of it on there then moved it back over to my c drive then only store OS and games on there wold that work?

USAFRet · Feb 11, 2016

Let's assume a 250GB SSD. You have to get the total used space to below 200GB.
Move stuff like doc/music/video/downloads
Uninstall some things.

Only when it is actually below 200GB can you do this.
Or, a clean install on the new SSD (recommended).

RunLuke · Feb 11, 2016

just clean install, cloning is moronic for this purpose.

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