Moving windows to a SSD

[Coreyman03]

I just got a SSD and I need to migrate windows to it. I have tried looking at a few guides and none of them have worked because all of them just have you copy entire partitions over, which I cant do because as far as I can tell windows is in the same partition as everything else, and I have too small of an SSD for that. If there is no way to do this, than is there a way to create a new partition with just windows in it? Feel free to ask if you need more information or screenshots.

Thank you!

 

[Enderman]

https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

[DiabeticSeizures]

What you need to do is get a thumb drive with at least 8gb on it, and make a boot drive and boot off of that through the bios. there, you can select your SSD, and install windows onto the hard drive.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/install/create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive  <-- guide on making a boot USB

[Coreyman03]

That looks like it will work, I'm going to go try it, thank you!

[aezakmi]

u don't have to do a clean install if you're only adding an SSD, read this thread first OP