Add an ssd for booting windows 10 help

Flarestrike99

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Jan 6, 2017
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Hi all, small question:

I got my pre-built computer from best-buy (i know, i was a kid) which came with windows 8 preinstalled into the 1tb hard drive. The PC comes with a windows 8 cd that tells me the product key on a label that i'm supposed to put.

I have a 60gb siliconpower ssd that i bought and i want to place my windows 10 to boot faster, but i don't know how to transfer only windows, but not my other files. I was reading on the internet that i could use a disk imaging/cloning program, or something about clean-installing windows on the new ssd and stuff.

could anyone give me a thorough and understandable rundown that would let me transfer windows 10 to my ssd? I'm not very adept at this stuff and i'd like to learn.

 
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By the way, 60GB is very low capacity for windows + apps + ....

just use "windows media creation tool" to get a booting usb flash drive install media

before installing set the SATA Mode to "AHCI" instead of "IDE"
install windows with it (better unplug your HDD before installing, to be sure your SSD will be the boot partition)

you can replug the hdd after it, eventually the boot order in BIOS has to be altered to the SSD
By the way, 60GB is very low capacity for windows + apps + ....

just use "windows media creation tool" to get a booting usb flash drive install media

before installing set the SATA Mode to "AHCI" instead of "IDE"
install windows with it (better unplug your HDD before installing, to be sure your SSD will be the boot partition)

you can replug the hdd after it, eventually the boot order in BIOS has to be altered to the SSD
 
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USAFRet

Titan
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1. How much total used space is on your current drive?
2. What, exactly, does that space constitute?
3. Do you have another drive handy...an external USB maybe?
4. A 60GB SSD really isn't a good option.