What to do after HDD to SSD Clone

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stevybob

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Today I successfully cloned my HDD to an SSD using Samsung data migration. Currently I boot off the new SSD.


1) I want to delete the duplicate items from the original HDD. Is this a safe/smart thing to do? or should i just live with the duplicate files (Including the OS and everything)?

2) If it is safe to do so, what am i supposed to do to get the duplicate data off the original HDD?

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3) When i cloned the HHD to the SSD samsungs data migration software game me the option to not clone media files to save space. I want to keep the files that I did not clone on my original HDD but delete the Duplicates. How do I do this?
 
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CountMike
You could just delete everything you don't need on second (old) drive but some partitions and parts not needed any more would be left on it just wasting space. What I would do is to copy all files you want to keep to new disk in temporary directory, "kill" all the partitions on old disk and format it. Than you'd be able to move them back where you want on that disk.
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You could just delete everything you don't need on second (old) drive but some partitions and parts not needed any more would be left on it just wasting space. What I would do is to copy all files you want to keep to new disk in temporary directory, "kill" all the partitions on old disk and format it. Than you'd be able to move them back where you want on that disk.
 
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