Following the holiday festivities I found myself obtaining a 256GB Samsung 850 Pro for my computer to use alongside the 1TB HDD I've had in there for years now. For right now I just want to use the SSD to store (1) The OS which in my case is Windows 8.1, (2) The few games I play regularly, and (3) The editing software I use, e.g. After Effects or Pinnacle, which are all currently sitting on the HDD. The safest way (it seems) to go about getting specifically the OS on there is by doing a clean install of it. Speaking with a Geek Squad representative they suggested that if I'm doing a clean install I might as well just do one of Windows 10 instead of 8.1 since it's the latest version and all that.
In that case I would just hop into the store one day, hand off my SSD to them, and then have it returned with Windows 10 on it and leave, then plug everything back up once I got back home, change the boot order to boot from the SSD, then just migrate the small handful of programs and games over to the SSD and delete them from the HDD.
As someone who's never done this before this is what I've got in mind in regards to how the process SHOULD go down. Now from someone who's actually done this before, is there anything wrong with this method and what would you recommend. Thanks a bunch.
In that case I would just hop into the store one day, hand off my SSD to them, and then have it returned with Windows 10 on it and leave, then plug everything back up once I got back home, change the boot order to boot from the SSD, then just migrate the small handful of programs and games over to the SSD and delete them from the HDD.
As someone who's never done this before this is what I've got in mind in regards to how the process SHOULD go down. Now from someone who's actually done this before, is there anything wrong with this method and what would you recommend. Thanks a bunch.
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