Moving stuff from HDD to SSD

[Rektum]

I've never done this before... what's the best way for me to move 300 GB worth of files from my HDD to my new SSD? 

 

My situation is that I have my current computer with a small SSD for windows and then HDD for everything else. I'm building a new PC and want to have everything on my new 1TB SSD, including windows. What's the best way for me to do this? Any help is appreciated, thank you!

[TubsAlwaysWins]

2 minutes ago, Rektum said:

I've never done this before... what's the best way for me to move 300 GB worth of files from my HDD to my new SSD? 

 

My situation is that I have my current computer with a small SSD for windows and then HDD for everything else. I'm building a new PC and want to have everything on my new 1TB SSD, including windows. What's the best way for me to do this? Any help is appreciated, thank you!

If you can get ahold of a copy (not hard to get. you just have to may for it) of Acronis True Image its pretty good for stuff like that (it has a cloning feature. Ive used it 20+ times without fail)

[Beskamir]

Cloning software like Acronis True Image is really you're best choice here.

[Rektum]

3 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

If you can get ahold of a copy (not hard to get. you just have to may for it) of Acronis True Image its pretty good for stuff like that (it has a cloning feature. Ive used it 20+ times without fail)

 

1 minute ago, ElfFriend said:

Cloning software like Acronis True Image is really you're best choice here.

 

What exactly does the free trial limit me to?

[Mira Yurizaki]

http://www.pcgamer.com/how-clone-hard-drive-or-ssd-2014/ That has links to some free tools you can try out.

 

Otherwise, are you cloning your OS install? If not you can just copy and paste. Or if want a more thorough job, you can open the command prompt and run:

robocopy [source] [destination] /MIR

 

[Rektum]

11 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

http://www.pcgamer.com/how-clone-hard-drive-or-ssd-2014/ That has links to some free tools you can try out.

 

Otherwise, are you cloning your OS install? If not you can just copy and paste. Or if want a more thorough job, you can open the command prompt and run:

robocopy [source] [destination] /MIR

 

I will be cloning the OS as well. Is robocopy a good way to do that?

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Rektum said:

I will be cloning the OS as well. Is robocopy a good way to do that?

No, there's a hidden partition on your boot drive that has the bootloader. This needs to be cloned otherwise the OS won't boot from the new drive.

[Rektum]

5 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

No, there's a hidden partition on your boot drive that has the bootloader. This needs to be cloned otherwise the OS won't boot from the new drive.

So what do you think is the best way to do this?

[bgibbz]

3 hours ago, Rektum said:

I've never done this before... what's the best way for me to move 300 GB worth of files from my HDD to my new SSD? 

 

My situation is that I have my current computer with a small SSD for windows and then HDD for everything else. I'm building a new PC and want to have everything on my new 1TB SSD, including windows. What's the best way for me to do this? Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Check your ssds documentation. My Samsung ssd came with software to transfer files from an old disk, maybe yours does to. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

8 hours ago, Rektum said:

So what do you think is the best way to do this?

Clone the entire drive to the SSD.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

12 hours ago, Rektum said:

 

 

What exactly does the free trial limit me to?

No idea. All you need is the Clone tool