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Darkender1988

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I currently have a 240gb SSD from a few years ago. I have my OS and whatever video games I'm playing at the time on it, I have an 2tb external for absolutely everything else (video games I'm not playing right now, pics, vids, etc...) With the price of SSDs coming down drastically and the size of games going up drastically I'm considering purchasing a 1tb internal SSD or at least 500gb. If I decide to do this, will I be able to very easily and painlessly copy everything on my current SSD to the new one without having to reinstall the OS and all of that? I basically want to plug it in, drag everything to the new SSD, then change the boot priority to the new SSD and reformat the old one. Will it be this simple? Thanks in advance!
 
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aquielisunari

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Most likely. SSD's usually include some sort of migration utility to make the transition from HDD( or whatever drive the OS is currently on) to SSD painless. I purchased a 120GB SSD and http://www.adata.com/us/ss/software-5/ came free with it. However it was a brand new(purchased 10 with it) build and I didn't have 10 previously nor did I want to migrate my old OS.
 
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Absolutely easy.
These steps, just like this:
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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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