How to move all hdd data to ssd?

[Corruption]

I want to suprise my mother by replacing her 1tb hdd (with only like 10% used the whole time shes had it) with an ssd. Is there a way to transfer all hdd files including os to the ssd?

[Extingquish]

You should probably just do a fresh OS install onto the SSD Then link the programs and documents to the HDD

[Corruption]

You should probably just do a fresh OS install onto the SSD Then link the programs and documents to the HDD

How?

[Sam Z Man]

Make sure you don't bite off more then you can chew because if you lose all her data have fun explaining that.

Then again Surprise computer updates are fun once I replaced my moms 1gb of 300mhz RAM with 3gb of 1200mhz Ram the thing is a old 32 bit windows xp so it really helped a ton. She was complaining that it was getting to slow and she wanted a new computer that would have cost her 550$ but money is tight in our house so she just had to deal with it. But when she used it for the first time after I put the 20$ of RAM in when she was out of the house she was ecstatic the thing is still going strong being used as my little siblings PC even thought it's almost 7 years old.

[OnekillWalter]

How?

buy her flowers. asle free.

[Captain_WD]

I want to suprise my mother by replacing her 1tb hdd (with only like 10% used the whole time shes had it) with an ssd. Is there a way to transfer all hdd files including os to the ssd?

 

 

Hey Corruption,

 

I would also suggest doing a fresh install of the OS. This way you would avoid any potential compatibility issues and other problems such as the SSD being treated as a HDD, driver issues, etc. If she has everything on her boot partition, you can look into system image restore. Here's a link to that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/restore-computer-from-system-image-backup#1TC=windows-7. This will save all programs, files, drivers, registry and the OS on your C drive. You can then plug the HDD to transfer everything else (if she has a second partition).

 

Captain_WD.

[Corruption]

Hey Corruption,

I would also suggest doing a fresh install of the OS. This way you would avoid any potential compatibility issues and other problems such as the SSD being treated as a HDD, driver issues, etc. If she has everything on her boot partition, you can look into system image restore. Here's a link to that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/restore-computer-from-system-image-backup#1TC=windows-7. This will save all programs, files, drivers, registry and the OS on your C drive. You can then plug the HDD to transfer everything else (if she has a second partition).

Captain_WD.

Yeah i decide to just get a 120gb ssd and put her os on it. Any tips for that?