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Migrate windows to new SSD, problems?

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1 hour ago, Jamie42 said:

I currently have a 120GB SSD (With my windows installation & some programs)  and a WD Black 4TB (Files & programs) in my pc, but my SSD is almost full. So my solution was to buy a new SSD and copy my Win installation from the 120GB one to a 512GB or 1TB one. Now i've got some questions about this. If i would do this:

  1. Buy a bigger SSD
  2. Put the bigger SSD in
  3. Copy my Windows installation to the new, bigger SSD with windows backup
  4. Boot to the new, bigger SSD
  5. Reformat the old SSD to be able to store some games on it
  6. Use my pc like normal

 

Now the questions are:

  1. Would Windows simply continue on that drive, or do i have to like plug the cable for the new, bigger SSD into the SATA port the old SSD was plugged into after step 3?
  2. Does Windows does not makes any problems about then being on a different type of drive?
  3. Would the 4TB WD Black still work fine with the new SSD?
  4. Have you guys got me anything to tell which i should consider when doing this? Things that could get me loss of data and stuff.

 

Thx.

1. Yes get a bigger SSD

2. First label your original SSD and HDD, then plug in your new larger SSD

3. Use the supplied transfer utility that came with your SSD to copy the data over. Windows backup will not work

4. After transfer is complete, shutdown, remove old SSD and boot with new SSD

5. Do not format yet

6. Use your PC like normal, and everything is good, then format old SSD or better off keep on the side as a backup.

 

1. Windows can simply copy files over from old drive to new, but it cannot copy registry and other special path, where programs need to read from. You will need a utility do to that for you

2. No it does not, it won't tell the difference

3. Yes

4. Backup, and double check before doing it. Some people just skip through having too much confidence. Then they made a mistake by doing the opposite, like copy new SSD to old where it wipes out their entire drive.

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I currently have a 120GB SSD (With my windows installation & some programs)  and a WD Black 4TB (Files & programs) in my pc, but my SSD is almost full. So my solution was to buy a new SSD and copy my Win installation from the 120GB one to a 512GB or 1TB one. Now i've got some questions about this. If i would do this:

  1. Buy a bigger SSD
  2. Put the bigger SSD in
  3. Copy my Windows installation to the new, bigger SSD with windows backup
  4. Boot to the new, bigger SSD
  5. Reformat the old SSD to be able to store some games on it
  6. Use my pc like normal

 

Now the questions are:

  1. Would Windows simply continue on that drive, or do i have to like plug the cable for the new, bigger SSD into the SATA port the old SSD was plugged into after step 3?
  2. Does Windows does not makes any problems about then being on a different type of drive?
  3. Would the 4TB WD Black still work fine with the new SSD?
  4. Have you guys got me anything to tell which i should consider when doing this? Things that could get me loss of data and stuff.

 

Thx.

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I just did this using acronis disk director, worked flawlessly again.

 

1) Clone SSD using USB cable, not eSATA. Copy NT disk signature...that's important.

2)Don't delete old info until it's confirmed when you put new SSD into the SATA plug on the old drive.

3) Boot into Windows and see what happens.

 

I went from 160 gig Velociraptor to SSD Samsung 850 EVO.

 

Things to note however I used the Win7 program which requires reboot. But the OS is Win XP.

 

This has worked for years for me....Clone after Clone after Clone....

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28 minutes ago, alphaproject said:

I just did this using acronis disk director, worked flawlessly again.

 

1) Clone SSD using USB cable, not eSATA. Copy NT disk signature...that's important.

2)Don't delete old info until it's confirmed when you put new SSD into the SATA plug on the old drive.

3) Boot into Windows and see what happens.

 

I went from 160 gig Velociraptor to SSD Samsung 850 EVO.

 

Things to note however I used the Win7 program which requires reboot. But the OS is Win XP.

 

This has worked for years for me....Clone after Clone after Clone....

Do you know the answers to 1-4?

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1 hour ago, Jamie42 said:

I currently have a 120GB SSD (With my windows installation & some programs)  and a WD Black 4TB (Files & programs) in my pc, but my SSD is almost full. So my solution was to buy a new SSD and copy my Win installation from the 120GB one to a 512GB or 1TB one. Now i've got some questions about this. If i would do this:

  1. Buy a bigger SSD
  2. Put the bigger SSD in
  3. Copy my Windows installation to the new, bigger SSD with windows backup
  4. Boot to the new, bigger SSD
  5. Reformat the old SSD to be able to store some games on it
  6. Use my pc like normal

 

Now the questions are:

  1. Would Windows simply continue on that drive, or do i have to like plug the cable for the new, bigger SSD into the SATA port the old SSD was plugged into after step 3?
  2. Does Windows does not makes any problems about then being on a different type of drive?
  3. Would the 4TB WD Black still work fine with the new SSD?
  4. Have you guys got me anything to tell which i should consider when doing this? Things that could get me loss of data and stuff.

 

Thx.

1. Yes get a bigger SSD

2. First label your original SSD and HDD, then plug in your new larger SSD

3. Use the supplied transfer utility that came with your SSD to copy the data over. Windows backup will not work

4. After transfer is complete, shutdown, remove old SSD and boot with new SSD

5. Do not format yet

6. Use your PC like normal, and everything is good, then format old SSD or better off keep on the side as a backup.

 

1. Windows can simply copy files over from old drive to new, but it cannot copy registry and other special path, where programs need to read from. You will need a utility do to that for you

2. No it does not, it won't tell the difference

3. Yes

4. Backup, and double check before doing it. Some people just skip through having too much confidence. Then they made a mistake by doing the opposite, like copy new SSD to old where it wipes out their entire drive.

 

 

 

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18 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

1. Yes get a bigger SSD

2. First label your original SSD and HDD, then plug in your new larger SSD

3. Use the supplied transfer utility that came with your SSD to copy the data over. Windows backup will not work

4. After transfer is complete, shutdown, remove old SSD and boot with new SSD

5. Do not format yet

6. Use your PC like normal, and everything is good, then format old SSD or better off keep on the side as a backup.

 

1. Windows can simply copy files over from old drive to new, but it cannot copy registry and other special path, where programs need to read from. You will need a utility do to that for you

2. No it does not, it won't tell the difference

3. Yes

4. Backup, and double check before doing it. Some people just skip through having too much confidence, they did a mistake by doing the opposite, like copy new SSD to old where it wipes out their entire drive.

Thanks that was the answer I was looking for! Do you know if Samsung SSD's come with such an utility?

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Ok... The Samsung Migration utility doesn't work as well as others though and it needs simply your OS you are running.

 

The Acronis can simply clone any disk no matter what which is the difference.

 

I tried using the Utility and it wouldn't work because I wanted to Clone my 2nd OS, which was XP on a different drive while I was on Win 7. It also states it does not like the clone/migrate if you use 2x operating systems.

 

So... it could be easy...if everything is working perfectly. I've tried many cloning softwares and Acronis usually doesn't let me down.

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