Moving 120gb SSD Boot Drive to 240gb SSD

zaboa22

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I built my own pc recently (my first one ever) and I put the boot drive on a 120gb ssd and then I installed most of my programs on my 1tb hard drive, however there are still a few programs on the ssd. I recently got another ssd (250gb Samsung 850 evo), I wanted to transfer the boot drive as well as all of my programs from the 120gb ssd to the 250gb ssd, and if possible most of the programs from my hard drive (minus my games cause that would take a lot of space). Is this possible and whats the best way to do it?
 
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1. You can't move the applications installed on the HDD. The registry, both before and after a clone operation, will point to the wrong place.

2. For a successful clone operation, these steps:
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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...

Barty1884

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You can clone it over, Samsung offer their own migration tool - among many other freely available options.

What will happen post-clone, is you'll have a ~120GB partition on the 240GB SSD. You'll just need to extend to make your partition the total 240GB.

Personally, I'd recommend a clean install opposed to cloning. Takes a little longer, but I find it just works better in general (cloning, you clone everything - the good and the bad).
 

USAFRet

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1. You can't move the applications installed on the HDD. The registry, both before and after a clone operation, will point to the wrong place.

2. For a successful clone operation, these steps:
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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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