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JoshK
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So I just ordered a Samsung 850 Evo 250 gb ssd today. I currently have a 1 tb hard drive in my system, which I have used 543 gb of. I know that the ssd comes with cloning software, and the word cloning leaves me to believe that all you can do is clone from your other drive, and not select certain things you want to clone. I would be able to delete a few games, but I dont think that will get me below the 250gb mark if I have to have less that 250 gbs. The only things I want to put on it is skyrim and all my mods, chrome, my os, nexus mod manager, and a few other programs. I will have more than enough space to move everything, and I will continue to use my HDD as a mass storage drive. Will I have to delete things to get below that 250 mark?

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Don't clone from a hard drive to an SSD. With SSD's it's smart to start fresh. Do a clean install of Windows (or Linux/Mac/whatever) and then transfer all the things you need from your HDD to SSD

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Honestly for your situation I would just do a fresh install on the SSD. Unplug the HDD during the fresh installation, plug it back in once done. Then move your important stuff from the HDD to the SSD post fresh install. Like copying the contents of the user folder from the hdd's :\user\you\ to c:\user\you\. You can do the same with the Skyrim install folder.

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Most likely, I would always try to do a clean install of windows if possible.

 

 

Dont clone from a hard drive to an SSD. With SSD's it's smart to start fresh. Do a clean install of Windows (or Linux/Mac/whatever) and then transfer all the things you need. 

 

 

Honestly for your situation I would just do a fresh install on the SSD. Unplug the HDD during the fresh installation, plug it back in once done. Then move your important stuff from the HDD to the SSD post fresh install. Like copying the contents of the user folder from the hdd's :\user\you\ to c:\user\you\. You can do the same with the Skyrim install folder.

Doing a clean install would make me so nervous. I dont know if I really want to do that, especially with really sucky internet. 

 

Im just worried about losing all of my screenshots, save games, skyrim mods, etc.

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Doing a clean install would make me so nervous. I dont know if I really want to do that, especially with really sucky internet. 

 

You would have better internet than me. And I clean install every time I want to. Come to think of it, I did that last week when Win10 had a bug.

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Do I really? I have anything ranging from 7 kbps to 30ish. With 800 ping. 

 

yes. I run my internet through a vpn. and then it tanks to 4kb/s.

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Doing a clean install would make me so nervous. I dont know if I really want to do that, especially with really sucky internet. 

 

Im just worried about losing all of my screenshots, save games, skyrim mods, etc.

I recommend taking the HDD out while installing Windows because it always likes putting system reserved space on another drive. That being said while you're doing the fresh install of Windows the HDD could be plugged back in and work as normal as long as you set it in your boot order. You wouldn't go to a single OS installation until you were done copying folders over and then formatted the HDD on the very last step.

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I recommend taking the HDD out while installing Windows because it always likes putting system reserved space on another drive. That being said while you're doing the fresh install of Windows the HDD could be plugged back in and work as normal as long as you set it in your boot order. You wouldn't go to a single OS installation until you were done copying folders over and then formatted the HDD on the very last step.

And I am able to install windows and enter the key later once Im done?

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