How to transfer all data from old ssd to newly installed ssd

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mombie101

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Hello all!

Thanks for everyone's help from my previous posts, hopefully I can get another well answered response to my final question!

SO, I just bought a new Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB to upgrade my Samsung 750 EVO 250GB. I want to transfer all of the data from my old 750 EVO to my new 850 EVO, wipe my 750 EVO clean and use that for extra storage. My reason is because the 850 EVO runs slightly faster and all of my games are already installed on the old 750 EVO. I do not have a USB connector; the new SSD is connected inside the PC through a SATA connection. What is the best possible way to go about this?

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Corsair CX550M 550watts PSU
MSI B150A Gaming Pro mobo
Intel i7-6700 3.4GHZ
2 x 8GB DDR4 CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 2400mhz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
250GB Samsung SSD 750 EVO
(Adding on a 500gb Samsung SSD 850 EVO)

All and any help are appreciated! Thanks again!
 
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Samsung Magician works flawlessly for this, on the several occasions I have used it for exactly this purpose.
Done as per USAFRet's post.

Samsung Data Migration is part of the Magician software.
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achilles174

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What you're looking for is a drive cloning software. There are numerous ones with various levels of user friendliness. If you want to install a program on Windows and clone from there you'll find many programs that can do that such as EaseUS Todo. If you don't want to install new software then you can find bootable ISOs such as Clonezilla which are custom Linux images designed solely to clone drives.

You're going from 250GB to 500GB, and I assume you only have Windows and it's only 1 partition (probably actually two, since you'll probably have a 100MB "boot" partition for Windows). This is the absolute simplest case for cloning programs to handle.
 
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Which program do you ultimately recommend for this? I do not want to risk a faulty cloning as that would be a disaster :(
 
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For a successful clone operation, these steps, in this order, exactly:
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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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Samsung Magician works flawlessly for this, on the several occasions I have used it for exactly this purpose.
Done as per USAFRet's post.

Samsung Data Migration is part of the Magician software.
 
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Zahid Shabir

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I want to clone my secondary hard drive as when I built my PC I cheaped on on the HDD as I used an old 1TB one I pulled from an old Dell OEM PC but my storage is almost used up and is kinda a little slow and I got another HDD which I am sure is faster as well as having 4x the capacity
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i7 7700K (bought before Ryzen and Intel z370)
Asus ROG Strix z270H
Asus ROG Strix Gaming RX480 (8GB)
Corsair Force Series MP500 NVMe M.2
Seagate/Dell OEM 1TB HDD
 
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For a secondary drive, you don't need to 'clone' anything.
Just copy/paste to the new drive, swap drive letters around.
Done.

If you have further issues or questions, please start a new thread for this.
 
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