Moving Windows 10 to new SSD

HummuH1 · 16 Jul 2017 at 12:14

Hi all, finding myself horribly out of touch here.

Looking to install a new SSD to system with 2 x HDD's. Windows 10 is installed on one of the HDD's and I want to have Windows 10 installed on the new SSD.

Is there anyway to move Windows 10 on to the new SSD from the HDD without doing a fresh install? If so, any downside to moving rather than a fresh install?

Any help appreciated. Cheers.

stopper · 16 Jul 2017 at 21:40

Minitool partition wizard.
With this you can very easily copy the entire disc to a new one and it will automatically resize all partitions to fit the new drive.
Should be pretty damn fast with an SSD too.

ED209 · 17 Jul 2017 at 21:54

you can try this guide

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/macrium-reflect-cloning-guide.18576917/

HummuH1 · 18 Jul 2017 at 11:27

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

alphaomega16 · 19 Jul 2017 at 18:15

If it was me I would just do a fresh install, won't it save your having to mess with registry to get the trim stuff for SSD's activated ?

Also what better excuse to do it than changing hard drives

It doesn't take long to install from a USB to the SSD.

weyland yutani · 20 Jul 2017 at 00:52

Before doing a fresh install on my SSD a few days ago, my system was a years old Win7 install I cloned from hdd to ssd, then months later upgraded to Win10, then a year later converted from mbr to gpt and honestly it ran no worse than my fresh install

ubersonic · 21 Jul 2017 at 10:30

weyland yutani said:
Before doing a fresh install on my SSD a few days ago, my system was a years old Win7 install I cloned from hdd to ssd, then months later upgraded to Win10, then a year later converted from mbr to gpt and honestly it ran no worse than my fresh install

The W10 SSD system I am currently using was upgraded to W10 from W8.1 which was upgraded from W8.0 which was upgraded from W7 which was cloned from a HDD which was upgraded from Vista lol.

HummuH1 · 21 Aug 2017 at 09:33

Just a quick update on this one. Tried Macrium Reflect to make a bootable clone of the current HDD. Tried several times, it cloned OK but nothing I did would allow the clone on the SSD to boot.

In a last ditch attempt, I used Acronis which worked first time. SSD booted fine at first attempt.