Advice or info on transferring Windows 10 to a new SSD

[Wazy]

Hello, my name is Jose, I was going to purchase a new 120GB SSD to be my new boot drive and maybe even hold a game, I currently have 1 TB Toshiba Hard drive. I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction when it comes to transferring my OS which is Windows 10 from my Hard drive to the new SSD. Any and all help is appreciated!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id get a bigger ssd if you can, 120gb is kinda small.

 

Id probalby do a reinstall, otherwise look at programs like macrum reflect.

[Wazy]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get a bigger ssd if you can, 120gb is kinda small.

 

Id probalby do a reinstall, otherwise look at programs like macrum reflect.

I will look into a bigger SSD and I will go with the reinstall, thank you very much!

[LukeSavenije]

It could technicly work to just clone it, but a fresh install never hurts. You can find some great 240+ gb ssds from adata, kingston, samsung, crucial, intel and sandisk/wd

[kb5zue]

Since the SSD will be a new drive for booting, the best thing you could do would be a clean, fresh install of Windows using the Windows Media Creation Tool.

 

[Eastman51]

Samsung has a pretty nice cloning software that I've used on a number of laptops in the past. You would just have to use diskpart to clean the old drive (clears the boot partition so your PC doesn't try to boot to a nonexistent install). 

 

New installs don't hurt. When you're booted into the USB to install Windows, just make sure you clear all the old partitions to prevent any mix ups (easier than going into diskpart, and harder to screw up).

 

Edit: You would need a Samsung SSD to use their software, I believe

[Zmax]

Myself I would do a backup of file I want to keep -- Photos and videos, on a USB drive or cloud server.

Then install the new drive, do a clean install of windows. And during the install I would format every drives, this way all is new and clean.