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Help moving Windows to SSD

cluelessgenius
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so my friend is upgrading soon and believe it or not he has been running on hhd until now and will be getting a ssd.

 

now when i first moved to ssd i used samsungs migration tool but i dont think it works with non samsung drives.

 

so anyone any idea about an easy way to move all his shit from his old drive to the new one?

 

his current drive is 500gb his new one might be only 240gb im not sure what he end up going for but but im sure half of his old drive is just full with his steam library so if we could ommit that and transfer everything else would be great.

 

any ideas?

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Ideally, he should back up any files he wants to keep then delete everything off the HDD, then install window fresh on the SSD. If he's super committed to keeping everything he has set up he can use EaseUS todo backup.

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The other way to do it would be to remove files off the HDD until its size was small enough to fit on the SSD, then use Macrium or some other software to clone the HDD to the SSD.

 

 

A fresh install is a better idea though.

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