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So I’ve recently bought a new prebuilt pc from Ironside and I have 2 pre existing drives, a 250gb ssd and 1tb hdd. The new pc will come with windows installed and that’s where my questions start, my old ssd has windows 10 on it but the new pc will already have it on the new 500gb ssd..so it may be a dumb question but would it screw up my new pc to just completely clone the ssd to my new one? Or what. On that note I could also use some help or program links free/buyable or helpful guide on how to transfer from old to new drives. Ty in advance sry I’m a noob.
 
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Both drives from the old system as secondary drives.
Whatever is in the new system and its OS are the primary.

Do not attempt to boot the new system from the old SSD.
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It'll screw up your warranty, that's for sure. When you get the new machine, make a Windows (7) Disk Image to some form of removable media (ex HDD). And when asked, allow it to make a recovery disk (if you have a optical drive). That way you can always restore the new 500GB SSD to factory new again. Once you have that disk image, you should be able to do anything you want and always have the disk image to go back to.

There are several good disk cloning pgms out there for free. I like EaseUS myself, but any of the others work just as well.
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-disk-cloning-software
 
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Cloning an operating system to another system will lead you to a lot of problems. The drivers on your old system, will conflict with drivers on the new system and you'll get system crashes as a result. You could uninstall all of the drivers from your old system and copy your OS to the new system, but that will take time and it still might not work.

It's better to just attach the drive as show here in this question. Then transfer your data to the new OS. -> http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1727544/hook-hard-drive-computer-hard-drive-running-version-windows.html

Or you could try these methods on this site to transfer your data -> https://www.windowscentral.com/how-transfer-your-data-old-pc-new-pc

 
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As far as im aware it won’t void the warranty to just transfer my old data to my new drives? That’s all I want to do I’ve asked already and they said it’s fine.
 
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As I said in my post, cloning an OS to a new system will result in crashing because of driver conflicting. The old OS is tied to old computer system. It's better to just transfer data from the links that I posted. And no, it won't void the warranty.
 
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I’m not trying to clone windows that’s the thing I’m worried of about when I plug the ssd in. I want to get everything but my old windows but I’m unsure of how to go about that as I said I’m quite new to all this.
 
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You can't do that. All your old apps, pgms, data, etc. is tied to the registry of the old Win installation. You either have to clone the old drive to the new one and hope the Win installation will work with seeing all new hardware, or leave well enough alone and start over like is the normal way to do it.

If you want to test it out, remove the new SSD and replace it with the old one. See if you can boot to the desktop. Depending on how different the old PC was from the new one, you may get lucky. If not, put the new SSD back in and go new.

If you simply want to have all your old Steam games available again w/o having to download them all over, there is an easy method for doing that.
 
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Apart from things like Steam games, you cannot do this.
The applications from your old system are null and void with your new system.

They need to actually be reinstalled. You can't "clone" those applications into your new system and its OS.


Steam games are a different story. We can go into details on that if you wish.
 
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Ah my bad guys I feel quite dumb, I don’t care to re dl all my games but it would be cool to know how to easily, as for my reason to why I want to I primarily have all my authenicator information as well as the backup codes for my email and A lot of other important stuff that I need because I don’t have my old phone anymore. Is it the same issue with the hdd I guess? I am more or so just wanting to get all my notes and some files from the hard drive.
 
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Assuming that you connect the old drive as a secondary...
And assuming you've installed a new Steam client with the new OS in the new PC...

Create a folder on your new system. Call it MyGames, or whatever you wish.
Find the SteamApps folder on the old drive.
Copy that entire folder over to the new location on the new drive.

Then, tell the new Steam client where that is. Thusly:
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder
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For your other stuff, just find it on the old drive and copy as needed to locations on the new drive.
 
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Both drives from the old system as secondary drives.
Whatever is in the new system and its OS are the primary.

Do not attempt to boot the new system from the old SSD.
 
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