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Molten
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Today I brought a 250gb samsung 850 evo for my os and a couple of games and I would like to know how to set it up as my boot drive with windows without deleting anything as my internet is way too slow to download 600gb worth of games and complete any time soon so what would be my best option, I don't have an extra hdd lying around that i can put files onto temporarily and the samsung migration tool doesn't allow me to exclude my steam library or program files (x86) so what could I do?

 

 

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Today I brought a 250gb samsung 850 evo for my os and a couple of games and I would like to know how to set it up as my boot drive with windows without deleting anything as my internet is way too slow to download 600gb worth of games and complete any time soon so what would be my best option, I don't have an extra hdd lying around that i can put files onto temporarily and the samsung migration tool doesn't allow me to exclude my steam library or program files (x86) so what could I do?

 

 

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I believe the Samsung Migration Software(2.0) now includes the option to exclude certain files as long as you select the directory where your steam games are located using the custom cloning options.

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I believe the Samsung Migration Software(2.0) now includes the option to exclude certain files as long as you select the directory where your steam games are located using the custom cloning options.

it doesn't let you go to program files or program files (x86) for some reason mybe if i renamed it?

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I believe the Samsung Migration Software(2.0) now includes the option to exclude certain files as long as you select the directory where your steam games are located using the custom cloning options.

never mind cant rename, i'm going to try copying to a different folder then deleting from program files

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this may take a while...

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Oh my goodness, and only 169KB?

 

Also there should be an option to do custom cloning where there's a tab called other which should let you choose what directory you want to remove.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/whitepaper/whitepaper11.html

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Oh my goodness, and only 169KB?

 

Also there should be an option to do custom cloning where there's a tab called other which should let you choose what directory you want to remove.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/whitepaper/whitepaper11.html

the exclusion page doesn't only lets you exclude zip, rar, psd, iso, alz, dat, img, lzh and ppt and only ones that aren't in program files but i suppose i could move all the programs i want to be excluded to a separate folder then compress it into a zip

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