Thinking of adding a SSD

[SladeDJWilson]

Hi,

My current setup has two 500 gigs HDD.

I'm thinking of adding a 120 or 240 gigs SSD for the OS.

So what should I do.

Add the SSD and reinstall Windows or is there a way I can migrate C into the SSD ?

 

[Bigcats10000]

I would clean install on the ssd. You can use the HDDs for data drives. If both are not full, can you copy all data to one of the HDD. Install the SSD with Windows, format the one HDD, transfer data to it, and format the second HDD. If I were you I would want to remove the windows installation from the HDDs.  

[SupaKomputa]

17 minutes ago, SladeDJWilson said:

is there a way I can migrate C into the SSD ?

Yes, you can clone it.

First reduce the old hdd partition (c) to fit the new ssd. Delete unnecessary files or programs.

So from 500gb to 250gb, you will need a partition editor for this.

There are 4 partitions, edit only the windows partition.

Next clone the drive with Macrium reflect, copy ALL partitions.

After finish, reboot and select the new ssd as default boot drive.

 

Or to make your life simpler, just install fresh windows.

Unplug other drives beforehand.

[SavageNeo]

Do you game? if you do buy 240gig SSD so you can put osme games to it. if no buy 120gig SSD

 

 

 

 

[GorujoCY]

If your hard drives don't exceed the capacity of the SSDs, you can freely clone it as jay will explain:

however if not, It is best to make a backup and reinstall windows on the SSD, wipe the hard drives and use it as Game storage, Probably in Raid0 as well to make it 1tb of total storage