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Seb1337
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Okay so I am planning to buy an ssd so I can have a faster pc overall. The ssd I want to buy will be only for the OS. Can I move windows from my 1tb hdd to the ssd without formating?Currently I have only the hard drive which besides windows 10 is filled with games and documents.

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yeah you can but I would suggest you to move your files to a seperate partition because it makes things a lot easier.

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11 minutes ago, Seb1337 said:

Okay so I am planning to buy an ssd so I can have a faster pc overall. The ssd I want to buy will be only for the OS. Can I move windows from my 1tb hdd to the ssd without formating?Currently I have only the hard drive which besides windows 10 is filled with games and documents.

Perform a clean install of windows on new drive, and delete it or your old HDD. I would recommend formatting tho, always best. Maybe use a external HDD for temp

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1 minute ago, Stormseeker9 said:

Perform a clean install of windows on new drive, and delete it or your old HDD. I would recommend formatting tho, always best. Maybe use a external HDD for temp

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formatting was my first idea because the hdd has only 1 partition (bad tbh) but I thought there will be a work around it

anyways thanks all :D

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