Can I get a new disk and download windows there without deleting the old one

[Privatech]

Hey!

 

I've had this pc for about a month or two and I've seen a lot of performance drop. After further research i found out my disk was really bad (ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro). I want to get a new disk (Samsung 860 EVO 512GB or 1TB). Is it possibl to download windows 10 there without delting any files on M.2 disk?

 

Edit: Im not getting rid of the old drive if anyone thought i will. Storage is storage even if slow. I do need some sapce for videos so ADATA's drive will do.

Edited December 17, 2019 by Privatech

[Viper9]

Yeah you can clone your drive. 

 

If you want a free cloning software you can use this one: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

[mariushm]

You can buy the SSD and use a disk cloning software (Samsung has one on their website, or you can use Macrium Reflect free version) to clone the data from the Adata SSD to the Samsung SSD, then just switch the SSDs so that you'll boot from the Samsung one.

 

[Lorant]

10 minutes ago, Privatech said:

Hey!

 

I've had this pc for about a month or two and I've seen a lot of performance drop. After further research i found out my disk was really bad (ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro). I want to get a new disk (Samsung 860 EVO 512GB or 1TB). Is it possibl to download windows 10 there without delting any files on M.2 disk?

Can you RMA the ADATA drive? Unless you need the extra drive space.

[Privatech]

Just now, Lorant said:

Can you RMA the ADATA drive? Unless you need the extra drive space.

Yes I need extra drive space. And this drive is really bad. It doesnt have any DRAM and it takes about about 36 seconds to start Windows 10. While on old pc there is a samsung drive which starts up windows in 10 seconds

[Lorant]

Just now, Privatech said:

Yes I need extra drive space. And this drive is really bad. It doesnt have any DRAM and it takes about about 36 seconds to start Windows 10. While on old pc there is a samsung drive which starts up windows in 10 seconds

Oh, I thought you were saying the drive was bad as in failing.  You're saying it's just not a good performing drive at all.  Odd, it shouldn't be that slow regardless of DRAM.  

[Privatech]

1 minute ago, Lorant said:

Oh, I thought you were saying the drive was bad as in failing.  You're saying it's just not a good performing drive at all.  Odd, it shouldn't be that slow regardless of DRAM.  

Its one of those scam SSDs that advertise HIGH SPEEDS and PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE. But in reality when the drive fills up. It gets really slow.

[Constantin]

Cloning is a bad choice, you will run into issues, the majority of the people who did say so.

better fresh install.

[Privatech]

Just now, Constantin said:

Cloning is a bad choice, you will run into issues, the majority of the people how did say that.

better fresh install.

Okay thanks for the help.

[Viper9]

Just now, Constantin said:

Cloning is a bad choice, you will run into issues, the majority of the people how did say that.

better fresh install.

If Windows is fine on his actual drive, he doesn't need to reinstall again. Of course if you don't mind you can go ahead and clean install Windows, reinstall all your apps and transfer your data. 

[Lorant]

1 minute ago, Constantin said:

Cloning is a bad choice, you will run into issues, the majority of the people who did say so.

better fresh install.

Cloning is 100% fine for me , over half a dozen clones

 

Be careful speaking in such broad terms.

[Constantin]

1 minute ago, Lorant said:

Cloning is 100% fine for me , over half a dozen clones

 

Be careful speaking in such broad terms.

Thank good what you write is public

[Lorant]

4 minutes ago, Constantin said:

Thank good what you write is public

I don't understand what you mean.