switching OS location

Hogger · March 3, 2016

i currently have a 1TB HDD and I will be getting a PCI-e SSD pretty soon. how can I put my OS on the SSD? is it just drag and drop? is there a software?

Domifi · March 3, 2016

You have to copy the image of your HDD to your SSD (clone it) with something like Acronis True Image

GoodBytes · March 3, 2016

Cloning is not imaging. Cloning you copy every bit from one drive to another. Imaging requires to build an image, error correct it, and extract it to your destination drive, and error it. Cloning has no error correcting. It is time-consuming, potentially slower than clean install.

Cloning usually leads to a broken system to some level, unless you have identical drives.

If your system is new, and you come from Windows 7, and you are not using UEFI mode becauseWin7 doesn't like your UEFI, as it only partially support it and not very good like Windows 8 or 10, and want to have full UEFI support, I would suggest to do a clean install (only way to do it)