Moving OS to SSD

[HakaM14]

Hey guys, 

So three months ago I built my first computer and I installed my OS onto the SSD and made a mental note to make sure to carefully set download locations onto my hdd. So I installed steam, afterburner, origin, etc onto my hdd when it asks where to write. However, after three months my ssd has only 24 gb's of space left (originally 256 gb). I think this is due to so many things defaulting to be downloaded into the ssd such as download managers, plugins, and all sorts of tiny stuff. 

Anyways, I want to re install my os and just get everything to be fresh again so I was planning to download the os onto the hdd and move it onto the ssd. So this would default everything to the hdd and i would be in complete control as to what gets put on my ssd.

I was wondering how this would be done. I was playing around with moving my desktop to my hdd, but it ended up not copying everything since something was open and i canceled but everything is in this or that folder and moved around too much. As a result, I dont think moving the os from the hdd would be as simple as cutting and pasting the windows file onto the ssd? 

If you have any experience or know how, I am always willing to learn, thank you!


As a note, I know about cloning the os and moving all of it onto the ssd, but that would cause the same problem since my documents would be left on the hdd, but everything would still be defaulted onto the ssd, so I don't think that is an option. I just want only the boot OS on the ssd. Thanks. 

[APersonWithABrokenChair]

Do you have a samsung ssd?

[HakaM14]

Yeah. It doesn't matter though does it?

[interneteducated]

ive used clonezilla for cloning drives it works with all drives, its actually a flavor of linux

[DoughnutBoner]

Lol, yea it will work copy and pasting the files from you SSD to your HDD programs may not run as well but it works fine for me just go to each program directory and make a shortcut of the Executable (again, should be in each programs directory should be pretty easy to recognize.) and when you want to uninstall just delete the whole folder where the program belongs.