Best way to upgrade a hard drive?

[BMARX123]

Hey forum,

 

I have a confession to make, I am still running on an old 500gb hard drive pulled from an old external storage bay, as my main drive. It is slow. It is very slow. I also happen to only have, at most, 20gb of free space at any time. I am looking to upgrade to an SSD, but I don't have the $500 dollars needed to upgrade to a 1tb drive. I have done some research and have not found enough concrete information to decide on what to do. Is there a way to get a smaller drive, and just transfer over the boot files and some games I would like to transfer, or do I need a drive big enough to hold all of my current data?

 

Thanks in advance for any help! 

[Tedster]

3 minutes ago, BMARX123 said:

Hey forum,

 

I have a confession to make, I am still running on an old 500gb hard drive pulled from an old external storage bay, as my main drive. It is slow. It is very slow. I also happen to only have, at most, 20gb of free space at any time. I am looking to upgrade to an SSD, but I don't have the $500 dollars needed to upgrade to a 1tb drive. I have done some research and have not found enough concrete information to decide on what to do. Is there a way to get a smaller drive, and just transfer over the boot files and some games I would like to transfer, or do I need a drive big enough to hold all of my current data?

 

Thanks in advance for any help! 

I'd personally make a full new install of Windows on whatever new drive you get.

[KezzaMcFezza]

2 minutes ago, BMARX123 said:

Hey forum,

 

I have a confession to make, I am still running on an old 500gb hard drive pulled from an old external storage bay, as my main drive. It is slow. It is very slow. I also happen to only have, at most, 20gb of free space at any time. I am looking to upgrade to an SSD, but I don't have the $500 dollars needed to upgrade to a 1tb drive. I have done some research and have not found enough concrete information to decide on what to do. Is there a way to get a smaller drive, and just transfer over the boot files and some games I would like to transfer, or do I need a drive big enough to hold all of my current data?

 

Thanks in advance for any help! 

If you get the Samsung 850 Pro 250GB it has cloning software for your system. So you can just put your operating system on the SSD.

Trust me 250GB is all you need for the operating system xD.

 

Hope this helps

[KezzaMcFezza]

Just now, Tedster said:

I'd personally make a full new install of Windows on whatever new drive you get.

I'm sorry ted but you're English right? your up at 4am!?

Saying that i'm Scottish and up at 4am too

[Tedster]

Just now, ProKeero said:

I'm sorry ted but you're English right? your up at 4am!?

Saying that i'm Scottish and up at 4am too

Yes, I guess we're both up pretty late. I don't want to be up, but I'm not at all sleepy...

[Aytex]

5 minutes ago, BMARX123 said:

Hey forum,

 

I have a confession to make, I am still running on an old 500gb hard drive pulled from an old external storage bay, as my main drive. It is slow. It is very slow. I also happen to only have, at most, 20gb of free space at any time. I am looking to upgrade to an SSD, but I don't have the $500 dollars needed to upgrade to a 1tb drive. I have done some research and have not found enough concrete information to decide on what to do. Is there a way to get a smaller drive, and just transfer over the boot files and some games I would like to transfer, or do I need a drive big enough to hold all of my current data?

 

Thanks in advance for any help! 

You can go for an 240-500gb SSD and pick up a 1tb HDD

[KezzaMcFezza]

Just now, Tedster said:

Yes, I guess we're both up pretty late. I don't want to be up, but I'm not at all sleepy...

Yea i drank too much coffee and i'm not tired at all xD. Cant wait for the after affects of it and ima be wasted tomorrow

[Tedster]

Just now, ProKeero said:

Yea i drank too much coffee and i'm not tired at all xD. Cant wait for the after affects of it and ima be wasted tomorrow

Damn. I haven't even had caffeine in the past few days and I'm like this.

[Moonzy]

im assuming you're using a laptop since using two drive doesnt seem to be in your option...

if your laptop supports a cd drive, you can replace the cd drive with an extra hard disk bay

 

if its a desktop, just buy a 250gb SSD and use it along side your old hard disk?

[KezzaMcFezza]

Just now, Tedster said:

Damn. I haven't even had caffeine in the past few days and I'm like this.

Caffeine kills, lol and i'm only 15 and i'm drinking coffee

[BMARX123]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

im assuming you're using a laptop since using two drive doesnt seem to be in your option...

 

if your laptop supports a cd drive, you can replace the cd drive with an extra hard disk bay

I am on a desktop. I am mainly looking to just get the windows boot partition onto an ssd. I have many shames.

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, ProKeero said:

Caffeine kills, lol and i'm only 15 and i'm drinking coffee

I'm also that age and I have friends who became caffeine addicts at younger ages...

[Tedster]

2 minutes ago, BMARX123 said:

I am on a desktop. I am mainly looking to just get the windows boot partition onto an ssd. I have many shames.

Just buy the new SSD, install Windows on it fresh, copy over what you want to copy over from the old drive, then use the old drive as storage, is what I'd recommend.

[Daveeede]

38 minutes ago, ProKeero said:

Caffeine kills, lol and i'm only 15 and i'm drinking coffee

caffeine is life, better to learn young if anything!

[Daveeede]

OP, do a full reinstallation of windows. If that 500gb drive is almost full, I'd be willing to bet that nearly 100gb of it is useless accumulated crap.