(New) SSD

[hconverse02]

I rma'd my previous ssd and I was sent a completely new one under the warranty.  I have about 250gb of files and games on my hard drive that I used as a backup while I didn't have an ssd and would like to try and move the data straight from the hdd to the ssd.  Is there a software I can do this with? Do I need to at least reinstall windows on the ssd? Or do I have to completely redownload all of my games again?

[rip]

Macrium Reflect

[ProjectBox153]

To be simple, just do a reinstall of Windows on the SSD. 

[hconverse02]

Just now, rip said:

Macrium Reflect

Trustworthy?

[NinJake]

8 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Trustworthy?

Yep, I've used it in the past to completely clone drives. You can also take images with it.

[hconverse02]

Just now, NinJake said:

Yep, I've used it in the past to completely clone drives. You can also take images with it.

Would the new drive need a reinstall of windows?

 

[NinJake]

Just now, hconverse02 said:

Would the new drive need a reinstall of windows?

 

Not sure, I've always ran sysprep after I have the imaged device. You could see if you can find samsungs magic software to transfer drives. (they have some software for when you buy their samsung SSDs that everyone claims works well.)

 

You can cross your fingers and hope windows will remain in tact, you will probably only be able to use one of the PCs at once though due to the registration key being used.

[BlueCrazii]

new drive = new windows for me because mine is so infected with stuff

[hconverse02]

Just now, BlueCrazii said:

new drive = new windows for me because mine is so infected with stuff

Luckily mine's not its just games and programs so Im going to test out the software first

[hconverse02]

59 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Not sure, I've always ran sysprep after I have the imaged device. You could see if you can find samsungs magic software to transfer drives. (they have some software for when you buy their samsung SSDs that everyone claims works well.)

 

You can cross your fingers and hope windows will remain in tact, you will probably only be able to use one of the PCs at once though due to the registration key being used.

What do you do one you have made the backup on the new drive?

[NinJake]

Just now, hconverse02 said:

What do you do one you have made the backup on the new drive?

Did you do a clone, image, or backup? What you need is an image. And macrium's website should supply you with the information to create a bootable usb, you put the bootable usb in your pc with your new drive in it, and then tell the software to restore the image you created onto the new SSD.

[hconverse02]

9 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Did you do a clone, image, or backup? What you need is an image. And macrium's website should supply you with the information to create a bootable usb, you put the bootable usb in your pc with your new drive in it, and then tell the software to restore the image you created onto the new SSD.

I created an image onto my ssd and theres just a large file on it now (the backup).  Is the bootable usb a usb with windows on it or just software? Do you have a link?

[NinJake]

Normally the way I'd do it is save the image onto an external usb device, then once your computer is setup with the new SSD, boot the pc using macriums bootable software (should have asked you to create a bootable drive somewhere throughout the process) and then load the image from the external drive to your new ssd.

 

I just looked into the samsung magician software and it looks like it is designed to only work for samsung SSDs sadly.

[hconverse02]

6 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Normally the way I'd do it is save the image onto an external usb device, then once your computer is setup with the new SSD, boot the pc using macriums bootable software (should have asked you to create a bootable drive somewhere throughout the process) and then load the image from the external drive to your new ssd.

 

I just looked into the samsung magician software and it looks like it is designed to only work for samsung SSDs sadly.

I didn't know to save the image onto a separate drive, so I will try that and if that doesn't work then I'll just run windows and redownload everything

[NinJake]

No problem! Hope it ends up being fairly easy for ya, if you have any other questions feel free to ask me about imaging.