OS migration

[joshua_lotion]

I accidentaly installed windows 10 onto my 3tb seagate hdd instead of the intel 600p 240gb ssd.

Is there a way to migrate the os over?

 

[Guest]

YES

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx 

 

Or do a clean install.

[joshua_lotion]

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

YES

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx 

 

Or do a clean install.

I only want to migrate the os itself and not the rest of the apps and games ive already installed on the drive

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, joshua_lotion said:

I only want to migrate the os itself and not the rest of the apps and games ive already installed on the drive

 

I don't think that's possible. Cloning usually copy all the drive. Maybe put those games and apps aside somewhere else?

[xitywampas]

The easiest thing to do is install it on the correct drive. When I do a install I pull all drives but the one I intend to install on. I learned the hard way when I deleted two years worth of data once.

[joshua_lotion]

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

I don't think that's possible. Cloning usually copy all the drive. Maybe put those games and apps aside somewhere else?

Oh. So if we clone, after that we have to reformat the old drive?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, joshua_lotion said:

Oh. So if we clone, after that we have to reformat the old drive?

yes.

[joshua_lotion]

1 minute ago, xitywampas said:

The easiest thing to do is install it on the correct drive. When I do a install I pull all drives but the one I intend to install on. I learned the hard way when I deleted two years worth of data once.

I actually new which drive to install to. However, the ssd is in a format that does not allow windows to install. So i was hoping to install on the hdd first then use windows software to reformat the ssd to a format that windows does support then migrate the os

[joshua_lotion]

On 10/15/2016 at 11:35 PM, dexxterlab97 said:

yes.

I have already cloned the drive onto my ssd. I removed the hdd to make sure that the pc boots of the ssd but when I do that it just goes straight to the uefi instead of booting into windows. What do I do now

[Captain_WD]

On 15.10.2016 г. at 6:27 PM, joshua_lotion said:

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Hello

 

Check if the SSD is on the boot list and make sure it is on top. 

Cloning isn't the best idea as you may face compatibility issues and driver problems such as the SSD being recognized as a HDD. 

I would suggest to simply make a fresh install of the OS on the SSD in order to avoid any issues. Try booting from your HDD and wipe the SSD from any and all partitions then remove the HDD during the fresh installation so you don't have any system partitions placed on the HDD by mistake. 

A fresh install would create a new system registry and because of that you will need to reinstall all your games and applications but you only need to remove the old system partitions from the old drive and format the old C partition and you can even back your data up before that. The system should work fine even with the old C partition on the HDD.

 

Let me know if you have any questions! 

 

Captain_WD.