Transferring Windows and games to new SSD?
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#1. You can't move "some games". All or nothing (mostly)
What size is the new SSD?
How much total space is consumed on your current drive?
What OS is this?
Do you have another drive...an external maybe? Just for some temp storage.
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Well...
For a successful migration into a 250GB SSD, the actual used space needs to be below 200GB.
Time to investigate exactly what is consuming your space.
See if you can prune it down to 200GB.
The Samsung Data Migration tools lets you leave off things like Music/Video/Docs/Downloads. Other than that...everything goes.
But that only works with a Samsung drive.
And the after action cleanup is a PITA if you did it that way.
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Yes.
Although, messing with partitions is often tricky. I wouldn't do it without a full backup of the entire drive.
Which you can't do, because you don't have another drive.
Full defrag
Shrink the existing C
Make a new partition with the now empty space
Move some stuff (not programs) into this new partition
During the cloning operation, unselect that D partition.
Full steps below:
Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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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 (here is where YOU deviate. Select ALL except that new partition you made)
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the 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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Yes. And you may need to delve into diskpart at the commandline to actually get rid of ALL the previous existing partitions.
Like this:
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
Well now I have five partitions I think, "C", "E", "Disk 0 Partition 3" , "Disk 1 Partition 1" and "Reserved for system". The ones called Disk X Partition X are only about 500Mb big though. C is the SSD and E is the HDD. So what now? just format E?
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