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So I have a 1 TB hard drive withe about 900 go worth of data on it. I’m purchasing a Samsung 870 Evo SSD and plan to transfer everything over to the SSD then just use the hard drive for bulk storage. Is it as simple as just formatting the SSD then copying and pasting from the hard drive? Of course I would power off, unplug the HDD and make sure everything works before then formatting the hard drive.

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5 minutes ago, MyFartSoTart said:

So I have a 1 TB hard drive withe about 900 go worth of data on it. I’m purchasing a Samsung 870 Evo SSD and plan to transfer everything over to the SSD then just use the hard drive for bulk storage. Is it as simple as just formatting the SSD then copying and pasting from the hard drive? Of course I would power off, unplug the HDD and make sure everything works before then formatting the hard drive.

Does it have Windows on it? If so I'd personally take the little bit of time to do a fresh install.

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10 minutes ago, MyFartSoTart said:

So I have a 1 TB hard drive withe about 900 go worth of data on it. I’m purchasing a Samsung 870 Evo SSD and plan to transfer everything over to the SSD then just use the hard drive for bulk storage. Is it as simple as just formatting the SSD then copying and pasting from the hard drive? Of course I would power off, unplug the HDD and make sure everything works before then formatting the hard drive.

Use a program like macrium reflect to clone it. Much better than a copy/paste.

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16 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Does it have Windows on it? If so I'd personally take the little bit of time to do a fresh install.

It does, but wouldn’t I have to pay for a new windows, and how would I transfer all the data then?

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  1. Use Rufus to create a Ubuntu USB
  2. Boot the Ubuntu USB
  3. Choose "Try Ubuntu"
  4. Open gparted
  5. Get the name of each hard drive (/dev/sd<whatever>)
  6. Open terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)
  7. Run sudo dd if=/dev/sd<whatever the HDD was> of=/dev/sd<whatever the SSD was> bs=64k status=progress
  8. Power off the computer once complete
  9. Remove HDD
  10. Verify SSD is bootable
  11. Wipe HDD

 

People like to recommend Disk Cloners that run within Windows but those can cause all sorts of weird issues.

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22 minutes ago, rcmaehl said:
  1. Use Rufus to create a Ubuntu USB
  2. Boot the Ubuntu USB
  3. Choose "Try Ubuntu"
  4. Open gparted
  5. Get the name of each hard drive (/dev/sd<whatever>)
  6. Open terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)
  7. Run sudo dd if=/dev/sd<whatever the HDD was> of=/dev/sd<whatever the SSD was> bs=64k status=progress
  8. Power off the computer once complete
  9. Remove HDD
  10. Verify SSD is bootable
  11. Wipe HDD

 

People like to recommend Disk Cloners that run within Windows but those can cause all sorts of weird issues.

Thank you for the help!

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4 hours ago, rcmaehl said:
  1. Use Rufus to create a Ubuntu USB
  2. Boot the Ubuntu USB
  3. Choose "Try Ubuntu"
  4. Open gparted
  5. Get the name of each hard drive (/dev/sd<whatever>)
  6. Open terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)
  7. Run sudo dd if=/dev/sd<whatever the HDD was> of=/dev/sd<whatever the SSD was> bs=64k status=progress
  8. Power off the computer once complete
  9. Remove HDD
  10. Verify SSD is bootable
  11. Wipe HDD

 

People like to recommend Disk Cloners that run within Windows but those can cause all sorts of weird issues.

Complete and utter Bullsh^t. 

 

Volume Shadow Copy is the core of Windows cloning since it was implemented in Server 2003. I was actually using it in Server 2000 although the APIs and specific writers didn't exist yet. When a VMware Host backs up a Windows server it uses tools inside the guest that initiates Volume Shadow Copy. 

 

I can take a running SQL server, initiate Macrium or Veeam running inside the live Windows server, clone to a drive or image while the server is running, swap the drives, and I get a perfect running copy of the server.  The various shadow copy writers initiate a consistent copy. This is common Enterprise procedure for bare metal or virtual guests. 

 

You clearly have no concept how these mechanisms work and are spreading false information. Live Windows cloning has been a thing for two decades. Its easy....and thats the problem. Macrium does this for free. Just install it and clone.

 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, wseaton said:

Complete and utter Bullsh^t. 

 

Volume Shadow Copy is the core of Windows cloning since it was implemented in Server 2003. I was actually using it in Server 2000 although the APIs and specific writers didn't exist yet. When a VMware Host backs up a Windows server it uses tools inside the guest that initiates Volume Shadow Copy. 

 

I can take a running SQL server, initiate Macrium or Veeam running inside the live Windows server, clone to a drive or image while the server is running, swap the drives, and I get a perfect running copy of the server. This is common Enterprise procedure for bare metal or virtual guests. 

 

 

 

Ah yes, Veeam is another good one. Doesn't get as much hype as others in the casual use side despite being very good, free (for non-commercial use) software. 

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10 hours ago, wseaton said:

Complete and utter Bullsh^t. 

 

Volume Shadow Copy is the core of Windows cloning since it was implemented in Server 2003. I was actually using it in Server 2000 although the APIs and specific writers didn't exist yet. When a VMware Host backs up a Windows server it uses tools inside the guest that initiates Volume Shadow Copy. 

 

I can take a running SQL server, initiate Macrium or Veeam running inside the live Windows server, clone to a drive or image while the server is running, swap the drives, and I get a perfect running copy of the server.  The various shadow copy writers initiate a consistent copy. This is common Enterprise procedure for bare metal or virtual guests. 

 

You clearly have no concept how these mechanisms work and are spreading false information. Live Windows cloning has been a thing for two decades. Its easy....and thats the problem. Macrium does this for free. Just install it and clone.

 

 

 

That was a lot of words that I don’t understand, but I think you said use macrium 

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