How to transfer Windows 10 from HDD to SSD

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I currently have a 1 TB WD Hard Drive (Currently with about 600 GB of data on it) and am buying a 500 GB Samsung Sata SSD. I want to get Windows 10 on my SSD right away (Not any games on there for now). But I want to also keep all of the currently downloaded stuff on my Hard Drive. If there is some step by step guide I can use to do this it would be very helpful. All of the other threads I have found seem to be slightly different and I do not want to take a risk with something like this.
 
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I just think that there is the potential for issues when you have Windows on one drive and programs that windows runs on another drive. Of course there are ways to do it...and you can try them and they may work great for you.....but 500GB is sizeable enough for Windows and quite a few large games, so I would do that if I could.
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So you want to install bare bones Windows 10 on the SSD and run the programs from the 1TB WD?

This can be tricky.

If it were me, I would install Windows 10 bare bones on the SSD and add the programs I wanted to use to the SSD and just use the 1TB WD for data.
 
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I want to run Windows 10 and a few smaller games on the SSD and then I want to use my HDD for the rest of the games because I can't fit them all on a 500 GB SSD. Would it work if I unplugged the hard drive, then plugged in the SSD booted up to Windows and download Windows 10 only when the SSD is installed. Then power off and plug in the HDD. Choose to boot to windows using the SSD and then once I get into Windows I delete the Windows files (System 32)?
 
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I just think that there is the potential for issues when you have Windows on one drive and programs that windows runs on another drive. Of course there are ways to do it...and you can try them and they may work great for you.....but 500GB is sizeable enough for Windows and quite a few large games, so I would do that if I could.
 
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Alright I have decided I will just wipe the HDD and start fresh. Because I do have some games and stuff that I do not need. Thanks for the advice, I will try to run the stuff on seperate drives but thanks for the heads up that it may not work.
 
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It's not that it won't work...it's just that there can be issues.

Let's say that your 1TB drive dies....now you have Windows thinking those programs are still good...plus Windows still has files associated with the program and the registry thinking that the program is still there. ...and if you go to uninstall....I'm not sure what would happen when windows goes to look for a drive that's not there.

This is just one example of things that can happen when you do this.
 
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