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I want to upgrade my ssd, but I have only one PCI-E x4 slot which is already populated with my old SSD with Windows already on it. (I have two m.2 slots but the 4x one is switches to x2 when both slots are populated), I was thinking of migrating the data on my old ssd to my hard drive using a tool, then switching the ssd to a new one, and then moving the operating system onto the new ssd. Is that going to work? What should I watch out for? Any help will be much appreciated
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Hello i have a querie Currently i have a server running Truenas Scale with an App of official plex from truenas charts. the way it this runs currently is just to trouble some for me and i want to change my host OS to Windows (probably win10). My question is, is it possible to backup the meta data and preferably all the settings from plex on truenas and restore it to a fresh install on windows. if the data needs to be modified that is fine but i dont want to have to reapply settings. i know you can backup the config, but dont know if it will go across nicely. Thanks -
So i just migrate my os from hard drive to ssd, (dual drive) everything went fine and i manage to boot a couple times, and i check my bios a couple times to make sure they were installed on correct drive, my ssd but then when i try to formatted my HDD, everything went downhill, i can't boot to my os anymore, it keep blue screen said windows missing some file etc, i tried to using mini windows (ubcd) or to check if my ssd has any windows on it, but it actually yes, the ssd have all of the partition and files for a proper boot drive, but since i formatted my hdd it can't no longer boot onto it, it wasn't a big deal actually, i can install a new fresh windows again, but my problem is that how that thing happen in the first place, anyone care to explain pls, I'm planing to do the same with my friends laptop but i afraid if this thing happened to their -
I currently have HDd 1Tb in my laptop but it make my laptop slow. So I want to upgrade to 120gb m2 slot SSD as I have m2 slot available. But since currently I am using 227gb of disk space. And I have one partition C and other for recovery. Everything I installed was with by default path.i.e,in C:/Program Files/ so if I am using minitools software to transfer OS to SSD only. Will that fit or I need to match up to 227gb.
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So I got a new SSD over Christmas (The Crucial MX300 525GB) for a laptop that I was hoping to breathe some life into (specifically the "Toshiba Satellite P755-S5382") by replacing its old spinning disk (some Toshiba 640gb that came with it). Now you have probably noticed right off the bat that it is a smaller drive (the SSD) that I am moving to. What I want to do is migrate my current windows install from the HDD to the SSD, but I have not been able to find any software that allows me to do that. Now I am not against doing a fresh install but I do not know if I will be able to find the software that came with the laptop (you know the software that they put on there that lets there be graphical interfaces that pop up when you use the FN keys and such, as well as being able to customize bios settings from the desktop) so if it is possible to migrate the current install that would be great, though I am not against a clean install I can't find the software that came with the laptop. (by that I mean that I can't find an installer for it) Specs: (for those that care) CPU: I5 2400 MEM: 6gb (2 Samsung "Planet First" DIMMs, one 4gb and the other 2gb) GPU: Intel onboard graphics + GTX 450M Win Ver: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit (Latest update)
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I recently bought a 960 evo m.2 ssd for my computer, to serve as my new primary boot drive. I was wondering if it is possible to migrate my current version of Windows 10 on my HDD onto the new drive, as I would not like to have to pay for a new license key for Windows 10 Thanks for your help
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I am planning on upgrading the MOBO, CPU, and GPU of my rig and am wondering if I will run into any issues with Windows 10 if I do this. I read that the license key attaches to the motherboard so even if I clone my drive will I have problems with the license and drivers? There are far too many programs, settings, and custom file paths that I would rather not set up again. Is there any way to accomplish this successfully?
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G'Day Guys! So, as the title says, I wanna know what happens if I were to move my current windows 10 install to a new system while keeping it on the same Drive I wanna upgrade my computer this summer (Its summer in Australia) and I super dont wanna go through the headache of windows keys, as this computer used to run on windows 7 and used the free upgrade. So, any answer or solution to this would help so much! Thanks guys!
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I have an asus Z97-E motherboard with two WD10EZEXs in raid 0. If i buy an Asus z170-a can i just plug the two drives into the new mobo and will the raid remain usable?
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Hey, had my 512 GB SSD for a while now and deciding to move my OS onto it from my HDD im currently using Windows 8.1 pro. i have used ease partition pro and this has not worked for a full OS migration i have decided to get a usb and have a boot drive from it would this be recommended even though Ease Partition has not worked Motherboard : X99 a II Deluxe once this is done do i remove all drives including the original OS drive apart from the SSD? and then set a boot priority from the USB stick ?
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Hi everyone! I have bought an M.2 SSD which I will be picking up tomorrow and it is a Samsung 960 EVO 500gb. My current Win10 installation is on my "old" SSD which is an Samsung 850 Pro 256gb. I am trying to find out what my best option is: Do I keep the OS installation where it is? Do I migrate? If yes, can I only migrate the necessary OS bits or do I have to migrate the whole drive? Do I install fresh on the new drive and just copy over settings from my old C: ? I'd love to hear your experiences and advice! Kind regards!
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I was trying to clone my OS drive onto my SSD, but I ran into a problem. Apparently when I installed my Intel 730 SSD awhile back, and then upgraded to Windows 10, one of the system reserved partitions found its way onto my SSD (pic attached). I am almost positive that it is Windows Boot Manager, as my BIOS tells me WBM is attached to that drive. I don't know how this happened, as I thought the Windows installation all went to the same disk I was upgrading from. Anyway, when I tried to clone my old drive, EaseUS would not let me due to the system partition being on the target disk. I tried to move that partition back to my OS drive, but cannot. I don't want to format the drive, and then repair Windows, as I am afraid that will mess things up. Aside from performing a clean install of Windows, what can I do?
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I purchased an Inland dual bay usb 3.0 docking station and new Barracuda 2TB HDD to attempt to clone a 1TB Storage drive from my mothers computer that was failing. I did backup her important folders to my computer before attempting so they are safe thankfully. My first attempt i did nothing to the new and old drives except put them in the correct bays, make sure the usb cable was unplugged, and hit the cloning button. After running all night I checked the new drive, and the pictures folder would not come up and said it was corrupted. Also the new drive now only showed 1TB rather than 2TB. I formatted the drive still only seeing 1TB, and tried again failing a second time. Now I am trying to use the dock to simply format the drive back to 2TB and manually move the data over, but failing at this as well. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Thank you
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Hello, My Google Fu is apparently weak today,as I cannot find and answer to my questions for Freenas. I have built a new Freenas server and would like to migrate my files onto the new device from my old Freenas Server. The new machine has 12 bays, all are full. The old machine has 5 hard drives in it. I cannot transplant the drives into the new server. I have gigabit networking in my house and am able to do the transfer over ethernet if there is an easy way to do so. My goal is essentially to "map a network drive" that is my old Freenas machine, and copy the files over. I'm certain I am using the wrong terminology for all of this; I am sorry. Is there a plugin for Freenas that would allow me to do this easily? I had heard Rsync mentioned in a couple of posts, but seen no instructions/ actual appliaction/ results of using it. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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So I recently put together a gaming PC for the first time. "yay!" and all that. I have an old PC with Win10 Pro activated on it, but I want to migrate that license to my new one. So how do I do this? I followed a tutorial on the Microsoft support website, one about re-activating windows after significant hardware changes. It mentioned that I should go to Settings -> Update & Security -> Activation -> Troubleshoot and follow the steps from there. Those steps include clicking "I recently changed hardware on this device" and selecting the device I'm using at the moment. Now, here is where the problem lies. This list of devices linked to my Microsoft account contains a grand total of 1 PC, which is my old one. The new one doesn't show up. I think it's because that tool is built for computers where the hardware changed. In my case (excuse the pun) the PC is made completely of new parts. Even storage and boot drive. So how do I migrate my license to my new PC? I'm not sure I'll be able to find my product key, because I did the free upgrade from Win7 thing, but Microsoft assured me that everything would be fine if I just linked my Microsoft account, which I did. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'll answer as many questions as necessary. (I won't respond for the coming 8-9 hours as of posting this tho, as it is currently 1 AM for me and I want to go to bed)
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I have a laptop (Dell Inspiron 7559) which I want to install a ssd. The problem is, the disk has only one partition right now with all my applications and games data and OS data in it (C drive). The full storage is 1tb and now 700gb ++ has been consumed. Im thinking of buying a samsung 860 evo ssd 250gb. Is there any way to transfer only the bootable OS to the new ssd? If i really need to delete or uninstall all my apps, is there any easy way to backup and restore? Please provide detailed instruction on that.
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So i have been helping a not very tech savvy friend install and set up his new SSD to help with his boot times and his game loading times. So far I've gotten the SSD installed with him but i don't have a software i can use to migrate the files etc, i have tried the Adata file transfer software but he couldn't figure out how to get it to work (as i said he's not very tech savvy) so can you guys suggest me some programs that aren't viruses/scams? Thanks!
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Hi, I currently have a 250 GB HDD installed in my computer, and I want to transfer my OS to an SSD. I only want to transfer my OS though, not the games I have downloaded, as they take too much space, how do I do this without deleting everything? Thanks in advance.
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Hello, I started the journey of building my first pc two weeks ago, with the help of this community (thank you really much) I decided the road to take, what hardware to buy, how to approach this build. As the day passed and more parts were getting at my house I knew it was time to address my biggest fear, so I'm here once again, writing a post to ask for your help. HOW THE F**K DO YOU MIGRATE FROM ONE PC TO A NEW ONE? I want to transfer all my programs, all my propgrams settings, all my windows settings and of course all my data but that's the easiest part. Is there anything like there is Timemachine on mac? I'd want even my desktop icons to be in the same order, my start menu, everything. I have an external Hard drive to use. Help me please and thank you!!
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migrate Migrating OS from one M.2 SSD to a larger M.2 SSD
AbysmalCraig posted a topic in Storage Devices
I am looking for some help with regards to migrating my OS and files from one M.2 SSD to another I currently have a 120GB Sata M.2 and im planning to upgrade to 520GB NVMe drive but i currently only have 1 slot on my motherboard and I cant figure where to start with this and its starting to fry my head a bit Any input is greatly appricated in advance Also is there much difference between NVMe and Sata ? I know NVMe is faster but is it really worth it? -
So I've never had to do this before and wanna check with someone before i do. I need to move all the data on an SSD drive to the a new NVME drive, is there a decent free program i can use to accomplice this, does windows have a built in tool? To people that have done this before, whats the best way to go about it? Edit: IDK if this matter but the drives in question are Samsung, both, an 850 evo going to a 970 evo plus. Edit 2: it's a boot drive.
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I have a (supposedly) failing SSD (Corsair Force MP500), and Corsair is sending me a new one. Problem is, they want me to send the defective one in first, which is a small issue, as it's my boot drive. I have extra hard drives I can temporarily put Windows onto. My plan is to move windows onto my hard drive, and then move it to the new SSD when it comes, but how should I do it? I want to make sure all my programs, settings, etc. stay exactly as they were throughout the whole process. I have heard of some migrating tools, but I'm worried for when Windows is under the knife... Any recommended options? Or is there a better way? And while Windows is on the hard drive, can I boot from that and use it as normal, or is it better not to touch it? Or should I try asking Corsair if I can send in the old after I get the new, so I can do a direct migration (I'll need an M.2 PCIe adapter then - I only got one M.2 slot).
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I need help. I recently got a Kingston SSD because i wanted to use it for a faster booting for my computer. I also have 2 HDD which are both 500GB. What i need help on is that how do i transfer important windows files into my new hdd. basically migrating every bit of information from one hdd to another. winthout having me to delete my stuff. one of the hdd is from a crappy computer. One of my hdd is not in the case which is not from my build. Isnt just copy and paste from the folders menu and transfer every folder. would that help? i want to use my ssd to use for faster booting. transfering my files over to a new hdd and including win 10 if possible. im tired of my case being wide open i fell like everything is whack. i just want to know if this is really simple or nor.
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Hello there guys. I've this question for you, any help will be appreciated. Basically, I want to migrate my os, windows 10 pro x64, installed on my primary ssd (samsung 850 evo 250GB) into my new nvme ssd (samsung 970 evo 250gb) I just bought for an upgrade. The problem is that on the source disk, the 850 evo, I have bitlocker activated with boot pin (no tpm module), and I also have a secondary 2tb 7200rpm hdd encrypted with bitlocker set with automatic unlock. Can I normally migrate os like I do, for example, with my copy of acronis true image, with bitlocker turned on, or I need to turn it off on my primary ssd and then migrate? If I need to turn off bitlocker on os' ssd and migrate normally, what would happen to my secondary encrypted hdd? It will still be encrypted and unlocked on login, like now, or I need to set it up differently with a pin before doing that? I'm asking this because I set no pin on the secondary hdd, and I only have its recovery key, also it's quite huge and could take literally half day to decrypt (the encrypt process on this one took like 10 hours, so I'd prefer to not decrypt it ?). This could appear like a stupid question, because the 2 encrypted disks are just encrypted and that's it, one doesn't influence the other one, but since I set the pin boot with the boot ssd (850 evo) and the secondary on automatic unlock, I think they might be connected somehow (and I might be wrong on this). Let me know guys, because this is a new one for me, I never had the chance to migrate an encrypted system and I want to learn how to do the correct way ? ps: move into the right subforum if this isn't the right one, sorry in advance -
Hi there, I'm new here so I hope this is the right place! I want to buy a new SSD to add to my existing computer configuration (AW Aurora R6). Currently the boot drive is a 1TB HDD, which contains all files, folders, and applications. The SSDs I'm looking at are 120GB, as they are cheaper, and I want to run just the OS, and maybe a few extras from the new SSD. Is it possible to install just the OS on the SSD, whilst keeping all other files intact? There is roughly 900GB on the HDD, so it wouldn't be possible to get rid of stuff to make it all fit neatly. I don't mind installing a new version of windows on the SSD, but I'd like to be able to migrate existing user setup to the new OS, if at all possible. Hope this makes sense, thanks in advance for any advice given :)
