Does migrating from HDD to SSD bring only OS, or is it every program on HDD aswell?

STIHL

Distinguished
Aug 31, 2013
131
0
18,680
I am going to migrate my OS from my HDD to my SSD, and i want to know if it brings basic programs with it as long as they are in the size of the SSD. I have a 250gb SSD and my OS+programs/files is only 80gb. If i migrate, will it copy everything from hdd to my ssd? I just want to keep some things installed such as drivers, google chrome, microsoft office etc.
 
Solution


Presumably you're going to use a disk-cloning program to "migrate" the contents of your HDD boot drive to a new 250 GB SSD. You've indicated that the contents to be migrated total 80 GB. Is 80 GB the TOTAL amount of data on the HDD? Or does that HDD contain additional data and the 80 GB is simply a portion of the total data contents on your HDD?

So provide the TOTAL amount...
If you are using migration on a Mac, you can choose which programs to migrate.

On Windows it will depend on what you are using to migrate. If you google that application it will tell you. In general the installed applications will be moved. Almost all migration tools make a clone (100% of programs and settings moved).
 

Louise Porkolt

Distinguished
Nov 25, 2014
347
2
19,015
Hi there,

If you have a craddle to copy from disk to disk, just place the Original in the "source" side and the SSD in the "Destination side" and the craddle will copy it himself !

goto google and search for: sata cradle to copy ewent
check out the pictures of the search... this is the thing I use, 80GB is copied in less than half an hour !

goodluck !

Cheers, Louise.
 


Presumably you're going to use a disk-cloning program to "migrate" the contents of your HDD boot drive to a new 250 GB SSD. You've indicated that the contents to be migrated total 80 GB. Is 80 GB the TOTAL amount of data on the HDD? Or does that HDD contain additional data and the 80 GB is simply a portion of the total data contents on your HDD?

So provide the TOTAL amount of data on the HDD and how that drive is partitioned.
Is it single-partitioned or multi-partitioned? Is the 80 GB you speak of contained in a single partition or is it intermingled with all the other data on the drive (assuming there's more than 80 GB of data contained on that drive)?
 
Solution