I intend on buying a 250 gig SSD to add to my system. I currently have a 1TB HDD. I want to move the OS over to the SSD but keep other stuff on the hard drive. Is there a way to copy the OS over to the ssd without doing a clean install and not completely cloning my current drive? I don't know if I still have the key for my windows install.
Adding an SSD to an existing system
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WyomingKnott
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There may be, but I'm not aware of one. What I would do in that case is make a couple of external copies of the data on my current drive and then reduce the size of the data on the system drive by deleting stuff (you have two copies, and you checked them, right?) Then clone the smaller system partition to the new drive, and delete the OS from one of the copies you made so that it only has the data and install it into the system.
This is, of course, a problem if all of your files are from installed games and other programs - other than Steam. So will this work for you?
This is, of course, a problem if all of your files are from installed games and other programs - other than Steam. So will this work for you?
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