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SSD as boot drive without clean install

Kyzer
By Kyzer
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Is there any way to have an SSD as a boot drive and be able to keep all my data from my hard drive and just use it as a storage drive?

 

I really don't feel like installing 300GB worth of stuff again, and none of it is really deletable. Some small games might be, but not stuff like GTA, that's too big and would take too long to install again.

 

I just want the SSD to have windows and some basic programs on it like Chrome and Paint.NET

 

 

SSD: 120GB

HDD: 319GB/2TB

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however...your SSD has to be as big or bigger then the HDD partition the OS is on....

Yeah no, I don't have $150 to spend on a SSD.

But first, let's talk about parallel universes.

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however...your SSD has to be as big or bigger then the HDD partition the OS is on....

 

Yeah no, I don't have $150 to spend on a SSD.

 

Well its pretty much the option you have..

 

Shave your current C;\ size down to under 120GB by uninstalling things.. and then move it across, or buy a bigger SSD and do it.

 

/SSHD could be your best bet...

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Yeah no, I don't have $150 to spend on a SSD.

you can reduce the rise of the OS partition on the HDD. Unfortunately you might need an intermediary drive to do this. Can be a hard drive. Just copy the raw data, delete everything space consuming that you'd want to leave on the hard drive, get rid of things like page files and reduce the partition. Then raw copy to the ssd. 

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well, its as good as just reformating... fuck sakes, thanks anyway

But first, let's talk about parallel universes.

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