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Neblodus
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27 minutes ago, Neblodus said:

I built my computer a few years ago and at the time I could only afford a 250GB storage drive for it. Now I am running into storage issues with it. Is there some way I can buy a new drive and just...move everything over and get rid of the old one?

 

 

 

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Plenty of tools to do this, I used Clonezilla a few days ago do exactly this.  It was the first time I've ever cloned from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD and I was expecting problems, but it worked perfectly.

 

Write it to a USB stick, boot the stick and follow instructions.

 

In my case I had both drives in the PC then removed the old one when finished.  You don't want to boot with the old drive installed as its likely to boot the old drive and Windows not adjust the drive letters correctly.

 

If you want to use the old drive as additional storage, its better once everything is done to connect it over USB so you can wipe it entirely before putting it back into the PC, to avoid Windows getting confused at it previously being the OS drive.

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27 minutes ago, Neblodus said:

I built my computer a few years ago and at the time I could only afford a 250GB storage drive for it. Now I am running into storage issues with it. Is there some way I can buy a new drive and just...move everything over and get rid of the old one?

 

 

 

image.png.d0fc3242708bc39d24cb3ba445d4d141.png

Plenty of tools to do this, I used Clonezilla a few days ago do exactly this.  It was the first time I've ever cloned from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD and I was expecting problems, but it worked perfectly.

 

Write it to a USB stick, boot the stick and follow instructions.

 

In my case I had both drives in the PC then removed the old one when finished.  You don't want to boot with the old drive installed as its likely to boot the old drive and Windows not adjust the drive letters correctly.

 

If you want to use the old drive as additional storage, its better once everything is done to connect it over USB so you can wipe it entirely before putting it back into the PC, to avoid Windows getting confused at it previously being the OS drive.

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I have recently used Balena Etcher to copy some data over.

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1 hour ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Plenty of tools to do this, I used Clonezilla a few days ago do exactly this.  It was the first time I've ever cloned from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD and I was expecting problems, but it worked perfectly.

 

Write it to a USB stick, boot the stick and follow instructions.

 

In my case I had both drives in the PC then removed the old one when finished.  You don't want to boot with the old drive installed as its likely to boot the old drive and Windows not adjust the drive letters correctly.

 

If you want to use the old drive as additional storage, its better once everything is done to connect it over USB so you can wipe it entirely before putting it back into the PC, to avoid Windows getting confused at it previously being the OS drive.

Thank you! I was worried that i was just doomed

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