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i plan on buying a 60gb or 120gb ssd for my computer as a boot drive and keep important programs such as after efffects and such. how do i get my os from my old hard drive, remove the OS on my old hdd but still keep the files?? any instructions on how would be highly appreciated :) programs are welcome too.

 

PS i think its not good to "move" my os from my hdd to an ssd but i can't coin another term hahaha 

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3 minutes ago, Triventular said:

i plan on buying a 60gb or 120gb ssd for my computer as a boot drive and keep important programs such as after efffects and such. how do i get my os from my old hard drive, remove the OS on my old hdd but still keep the files?? any instructions on how would be highly appreciated :) programs are welcome too.

 

PS i think its not good to "move" my os from my hdd to an ssd but i can't coin another term hahaha 

Samsung has software to clone your current drive onto a new drive and I'm sure many other brands have similar tech

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Hi,

 

First of all, I'd recommend getting a 240 GB SSD. A 120GB will run out of space pretty quickly even with just a few programs.(been there, done that).

 

As for migrating the OS, Paragon disk manager has this very function (among other data migration and backup software) and it has a 30 day free trial. Czech it out.

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1 minute ago, YaqinHasan said:

Samsung has software to clone your current drive onto a new drive and I'm sure many other brands have similar tech

While this is a thing, a fresh install is ALWAYS better than cloning.

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6 minutes ago, Triventular said:

i plan on buying a 60gb or 120gb ssd for my computer as a boot drive and keep important programs such as after efffects and such. how do i get my os from my old hard drive, remove the OS on my old hdd but still keep the files?? any instructions on how would be highly appreciated :) programs are welcome too.

 

PS i think its not good to "move" my os from my hdd to an ssd but i can't coin another term hahaha 

I would recommend just clean install OS from scratch. Windows will be activated automatically

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3 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I would recommend just clean install OS from scratch. Windows will be activated automatically

but is there a way to remove an os from my hard driive and keeps my personal files??

 

my other problem has been that i have 2 hdd's connected to my pc; a 320gb (boot) and a 640gb (scrapped from broken laptop).

 

what i want to happen is to delete the OS in the 640gb so i can have better storage while keeping all my games, files, projects and such. how do i exactly do that?

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1 minute ago, Triventular said:

but is there a way to remove an os from my hard driive and keeps my personal files??

 

my other problem has been that i have 2 hdd's connected to my pc; a 320gb (boot) and a 640gb (scrapped from broken laptop).

 

what i want to happen is to delete the OS in the 640gb so i can have better storage while keeping all my games, files, projects and such. how do i exactly do that?

Install windows on the new drive with the old drive DISCONNECTED, boot to the new drive once installation is complete, shut down the computer, plug in the drive, force boot to the SSD, and then trash the WINDOWS folder on that old drive.

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On 1/31/2017 at 11:20 PM, knightslugger said:

Install windows on the new drive with the old drive DISCONNECTED, boot to the new drive once installation is complete, shut down the computer, plug in the drive, force boot to the SSD, and then trash the WINDOWS folder on that old drive.

Can this be done without doing any other commands in cmd or anything at all? I think we'll need more than just admin rights to delete windows installation files (Herby's "Take Ownership" Script, maybe, anyone?). Even old windows installation files. I could be wrong though. 

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