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Nicolas
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So I'm going to get an ssd (yes, I'm running off of 1 wd black drive, please don't kill me :P) and I wanted to know if it's possible to move the OS to another drive, and if it is, how can I do it, I do realize I could format and re-install but I don't have enough space to back up my stuff and It's going to take me weeks to re download all my stuff, so yeah, is this possible? if so, how?

 

EDIT: I hope this is the right section, if not, then feel free to move this :)

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Samsung drives ship with a cloning tool. Similar options are available online. 

but the cloning tool would just copy everything on to the new drive or just the OS?

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but the cloning tool would just copy everything on to the new drive or just the OS?

It copies everything exactly as it is. 

If you just want to copy the OS might as well fresh install. 

If you buy a 128GB ssd make sure that your C drive doesn't have any more than 90GB or so of stuff on it. 

I recommend fresh installing no matter what when switching drives. 

 

 

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It copies everything exactly as it is. 

If you just want to copy the OS might as well fresh install. 

If you buy a 128GB ssd make sure that your C drive doesn't have any more than 90GB or so of stuff on it. 

I recommend fresh installing no matter what when switching drives. 

Yeah I guess I'll have to do a fresh install, since I'm just not going to buy a 1TB ssd

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Yeah I guess I'll have to do a fresh install, since I'm just not going to buy a 1TB ssd

You might want to see if you can borrow a 1TB external or something to copy your data off temporarily so you can format the black drive. Having 2 installs of Windows can get annoying when trying to arrange the boot order. 

Also it will cause problems when you are trying to write to the old drive as Windows has some annoying copy/write/read protection in place.

 

 

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but the cloning tool would just copy everything on to the new drive or just the OS?

they have a migrate OS feature. but honestly a fresh install is a million times better. windows will not properly optimize for and ssd if u migrate but it will if u clean install

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