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i have a ssd and a hard drive and i want to copy the os onto the new ssd anyone know how i can do this

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EaseUS Partition Master, the greatest hard drive manager OF ALL TIME!!!

Yeah, you can migrate OS with this

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clonezilla anyone?

 

clonezilla you burn to a disc, boot to the disc, and then follow the on screen prompt, selecting the source drive and the target drive. it makes an exact clone of the first drive onto the second drive.

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You can clone the drive using EaseUS, it's a really good tool, but I would strongly recommend a clean install if at all possible, it's definitely more work and it's a bit tedious, but if you want the best performance and for Windows to work properly with the SSD, then please do a clean install.

I say that because depending on your HDD and which version of Windows you're using, it'll still be using the old 512K block size, whereas SSD's use 4K block sizes, and the older 512K size is wasteful and slow on SSD's, and you may have a ton of crud on your Windows install that a fresh install will clear out, further amplifying the performance boost you'll get from a SSD, you may also run into issues with cloning, Windows can be a bit funny with it, so just be aware of that.

Having said all of that though, if a fresh install of Windows is too daunting for you then that's totally fine, you can absolutely clone the drives and it'll probably work just fine, just be aware that you'll not be getting the best out of your SSD if you go down that route.

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i have a ssd and a hard drive and i want to copy the os onto the new ssd anyone know how i can do this

 

 

Hey Themastercpu,
 
It is recommended to do a fresh install of the OS rather than transfer it or clone it as you might transfer any bad sectors or malware that is already on your old drive. Also it is highly non-recommended to clone a larger drive to a smaller one as some files might be left out. you SSD and HDD manufacturers should have recommended software to do that :) do check their websites. 
 
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thanks everyone i used easeus to clone it as i had a larger ssd than i needed and i went well thanks

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