New SSD Help

[Caleb SF]

I just bought a 128 gb pny ssd for $35. I currently have 3 hdd. One of the hdd's has my os. Would I be able to transfer my os onto the ssd or is there anyway I can make the ssd my boot drive without having to do something similar to a factory reset? 

 

Thanks for your help, im new to the ssd world.

[Mr.Humble]

HI,

 

Paragon disk manager has a feature call "Migrate OS" which allows you to (surprise surprise) migrate the OS onto a new drive. If the new drive is smaller it prompts you to select which files to keep on the original drive etc. Czech it out.

[Guest]

Clone hdd to ssd. Macrium reflect should do or as @vojta.pokorny suggested Paragon disk manager 

 

But I would always clean install just to be sure and save problem that can occur from cloning

[Caleb SF]

4 hours ago, vojta.pokorny said:

HI,

 

Paragon disk manager has a feature call "Migrate OS" which allows you to (surprise surprise) migrate the OS onto a new drive. If the new drive is smaller it prompts you to select which files to keep on the original drive etc. Czech it out.

Any free version

[Caleb SF]

4 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Clone hdd to ssd. Macrium reflect should do or as @vojta.pokorny suggested Paragon disk manager 

 

But I would always clean install just to be sure and save problem that can occur from cloning

If I do a clean install of windows 10. Would I lose anything? 

[Mr.Humble]

4 minutes ago, Caleb SF said:

Any free version

A 30 day free trial.

[JoostinOnline]

6 minutes ago, Caleb SF said:

If I do a clean install of windows 10. Would I lose anything? 

It deletes all your files.  So yeah.  You can back up personal files, but you'll have to reinstall all your programs unless you clone the drive.

[Caleb SF]

2 hours ago, JoostinOnline said:

It deletes all your files.  So yeah.  You can back up personal files, but you'll have to reinstall all your programs unless you clone the drive.

shit, thats a lot of stuff. I might just see about cloning it or something. jayztwocents has a video on it.

[Caleb SF]

8 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Clone hdd to ssd. Macrium reflect should do or as @vojta.pokorny suggested Paragon disk manager 

 

But I would always clean install just to be sure and save problem that can occur from cloning

Is there anyway to clone just the os to the ssd? Or would i have to clone everything. Also, my main harddrive that has my os on it is 1tb and has about 800gb on it used. My new ssd is only 128gb. So I couldn't really clone the entire drive onto the ssd. and If I am able to pick what I want onto the ssd, what files are the os?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Caleb SF said:

Is there anyway to clone just the os to the ssd? Or would i have to clone everything. Also, my main harddrive that has my os on it is 1tb and has about 800gb on it used. My new ssd is only 128gb. So I couldn't really clone the entire drive onto the ssd. and If I am able to pick what I want onto the ssd, what files are the os?

I honestly don't know, I just did a clean install and it worked fine. Cloning ran into some issues for me but everybody else cloned just fine