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Hello there, i've recently purchased a new SSD (Crucial MX200 250Gb), i removed my HDD from SATA 0 and put it into SATA 1, and put my SSD in SATA 0. I used Disk Management to format the SSD to NTFS so it showed my in Windows Explorer to use.

Basically, my question is, how do i install Windows 10 on my SSD? I thought of cloning it, but everything on my 1.5TB HDD obviously isn't going to fit. Is there a way where i can re-install Windows and choose to install it onto my SSD?
 
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Given appropriate drive and data size, a clone thing can work no problem.

Here:
(only difference would be to unselect the second data partition on your HDD)
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung...
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1. You can't clone only the OS
2. Obviously, your current 1.5TB won't fit.
3. That leaves a clean install of the OS on the SSD.

What OS is this?
Generally,:
Disconnect all other drives
Connect the SSD
Boot from your OS install media
Install on that drive.

Of course, this means you'll need to reinstall all your applications. The new OS knows nothing about them.
 
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Unplug your current HD (to make sure you don't accidentally install over it). Plug in only your SSD and install Windows 10

You can get a install disk from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

After you install the OS, install all drivers you need.

Then plug in your old HD afterwards and copy your files you want over. When you're sure you have everything you need format your old HD and use it as a secondary storage disk
 
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C will fit into the SSD, i moved over my steam library and other things to D. Do you think this is a good idea or will it be better to remove my HDD, and install a fresh Windows 10 copy on the SSD? (provided i can with my current windows copy)
 
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Given appropriate drive and data size, a clone thing can work no problem.

Here:
(only difference would be to unselect the second data partition on your HDD)
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the original boot partitions, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
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How old is your HD? Even if the clone is successful you might experience performance degradation if the sector size doesn't line up. older HDs are 512 Byte sector size, newer HDs are 4KB sector size. I think SSDs are all 4KB sector size? There's also an alignment issue here, something about 512B and 4KB pages not lining up causing other problems. This isn't an area of expertise for me...

Here's an article from Toms actually explaining the issue...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/advanced-format-4k-sector-size-hard-drive,2759.html

After cloning your HD, make sure you disable disk defragmentation. SSD has wear leveling algorithms that's designed to not put data in contiguous space. Constant defragementation just burn write cycles for nothing. On a fresh OS install, the OS configures itself to never enable defragmentation.
 
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So i used Windows Installation Media to perform a clean installation of windows, and everything worked properly. But, when i downloaded the Windows Installation Media to my USB, i just noticed it deleted everything on my USB, including my precious Skyrim save file. What do i do? I'm contemplating committing suicide here. (just kidding)
 
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