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Upgrading to a SSD

vinnyerrero
By vinnyerrero
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In April I build a PC without a SSD and a 2TB HDD because of short money. 
Now I earned some cash and bought a 240GB SSD. Do I need to manually install Windows and all files again to the SSD or there is an automatic way to do it?
I use around 900GB of space but the majority of files(I think over 750GB) is games
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You should reinstall every thing, back up files and documents but all software should be reinstalled including the OS on the SSD this time.

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just do a clean install on the ssd, keep ur hdd in ur pc and swipe off the windwos installation off the 2tb drive, ul keep everything u had before yet have a clean install

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1 minute ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

just do a clean install on the ssd, keep ur hdd in ur pc and swipe off the windwos installation off the 2tb drive, ul keep everything u had before yet have a clean install

this will confuse steam though. it will need to re-find all the game files.

maybe backup only the steamapps/common folder (where all games are stored), reinstall steam completely (with a new desination folder), and then copy over the backup into steamapps/common. this should be a lot better than just pointing steam at the old directory.

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3 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

this will confuse steam though. it will need to re-find all the game files.

maybe backup only the steamapps/common folder (where all games are stored), reinstall steam completely (with a new desination folder), and then copy over the backup into steamapps/common. this should be a lot better than just pointing steam at the old directory.

no, u can set steam to a custom folder

 

In the latest Steam versions, just click Steam -> Settings -> Downlaods -> Steam Library Folders -> Make/Add the relative folders, RIGHT click on the folder you want to make default and click "Make Default Folder."

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9 hours ago, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

just do a clean install on the ssd, keep ur hdd in ur pc and swipe off the windwos installation off the 2tb drive, ul keep everything u had before yet have a clean install

Ok, I can do this. But how can I swipe off windows ?

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15 minutes ago, vinnyerrero said:

Ok, I can do this. But how can I swipe off windows ?

after u install a windows on the ssd and u run on the ssd, u can delete any file off the hdd basicly, u can change MSconfig to only boot to the ssd aswell and keep ur hdd the way it is :P

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