How to move windows file

[Guest]

If I want to buy a new SSD and put the windows file in the SSD, how could I move it?

 

[Jumballi]

you can clone it if the ssd is larger than the windows partition.

[Guest]

Just now, Jumballi said:

you can close it

close what?

[Jumballi]

Just now, ItsMeRachata said:

close what?

sorry I made a spelling error, I fixed it however.

[Guest]

what is windows partition? I forgot

[Jumballi]

Just now, ItsMeRachata said:

what is windows partition? I forgot

a partition is the amount of space a "drive" takes on a storage medium.

so you could have a 2tb hard drive, but split it into 2 smaller drives, with windows possibly on it.
now it is generally very difficult for people to make the windows partition smaller, so in the event that you don't have a large enough ssd, I'd recommend you just reinstall windows.

[Guest]

ok thanks

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Jumballi said:

you can clone it if the ssd is larger than the windows partition.

My C Drive Partition (Main drive for windows) has 314GB (105GB used) so that means if I buy a 512GB SSD then clone all 105GB of stuff on my C Drive Partition and go to BIOS Set-Up then select the SSD as my first priority then I can use my SSD for booting already, right?

[Jumballi]

Just now, ItsMeRachata said:

My C Drive Partition (Main drive for windows) has 314GB (105GB used) so that means if I buy a 512GB SSD then clone all 105GB of stuff on my C Drive Partition and go to BIOS Set-Up then select the SSD as my first priority then I can use my SSD for booting already, right?

no your partition is the entire used and unused space together.
and it's not as simple as just installing the ssd.
just google how to clone operating system and you should be fine, hopefully

[Guest]

ok thanks

 

[Teddy07]

47 minutes ago, ItsMeRachata said:

If I want to buy a new SSD and put the windows file in the SSD, how could I move it?

 

Had the same problem a few days ago:
I cloned Windows to the SSD with the free program https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

It is extremely easy.

 

A few things to keep in mind:

- The SSD will have a partition size with the size you cloned it from with rest of storage being unalocated. You can simply add the unalocated part to your partition or creat a new one using the Windows 10 disk management.

- Does your old HDD use MBR (master boot record)? The program above will tell you.

Because having two MBR when restarting caused an infinite bootloop in my case. Just delete the old one before restarting. If it´s already to late, unplug it and put it back a few seconds after you started your PC so that Windows still recogonizes the HDD but does not boot from it.

[Guest]

Thanks

 

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

Because having two MBR when restarting caused an infinite bootloop in my case

If I go to BIOS Set-Up and set the SSD as my first boot priority, will this happen?

[Teddy07]

17 minutes ago, ItsMeRachata said:

If I go to BIOS Set-Up and set the SSD as my first boot priority, will this happen?

Worth a try but it didn´t work on my board as I could get only once into bios and changing it did nothing.

MBR is a old system, your PC might not even using it. So don´t worry too much about it as it was just an info if you have it and are wondering why the PC won´t boot

[Guest]

How old? If it's 5 - 6 years old, then I might have a problem as yours

[Teddy07]

6 minutes ago, ItsMeRachata said:

How old? If it's 5 - 6 years old, then I might have a problem as yours

Yeah my PC is is similarly old.

 

Another tip: Windows 10 disk management can delete Windows partitions without a problem but it can not delete a windows recovery partition if you have one. You can however delete it in other ways quite easy: https://www.disk-partition.com/articles/delete-recovery-partition-4348.html