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SSD moving to new system

jclappers
By jclappers
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How hard is it to transfer my SSD from my current system which im selling, to my new system

obviously i will have to uninstall the drivers and install the new drivers

 

but what else will i have to do if anything

if it helps it is a samsung 840 240GB

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As long as it comes with software to transfer everything over, it'll be easy.

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If you arent trasfering the OS to another drive, you should just be able to install the new drivers and go at it from there. It should be painless. 

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drivers for an SSD, you are using windows XP??

It will be painless, just put the SSD into a new case, connect it and that's it - if it has no OS. 

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I would recommend a complete reinstall. Windows does a lot of special configuration when it detects that it is being installed on an SSD, and I don't think cloning software does any of those things (except maybe enable TRIM). Things like sector alignment might not be optimal of you transfer from an HDD to an SSD.

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I would recommend a complete reinstall. Windows does a lot of special configuration when it detects that it is being installed on an SSD, and I don't think cloning software does any of those things (except maybe enable TRIM). Things like sector alignment might not be optimal of you transfer from an HDD to an SSD.

Windows 7 detected my OS as being an SSD and I used software to transfer everything over.

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Windows 7 detected my OS as being an SSD and I used software to transfer everything over.

Are you sure about that? It changes quite a few things such as the way things are cached, align the sectors, disables automatic defragging, enables TRIM and a few other things.

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If you're moving your SSD between motherboards, then I urge you to freshly install. Especially if you are changing platforms. A lot of drivers (like chipset/cpu drivers) will be hard to uninstall/reinstall.

 

Fresh install is always best and, if you were smart in setting up your data storage, can be quite painless

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