New SSD as boot drive - what are my options?

Spikey · 11 May 2020 at 00:45

Hi guys,

Hoping to get my new Samsung 1TB Evo 860 SSD tomorrow and currently have my 250GB EVO 840 as the boot drive with a mechanical drive as my D drive at present. Looking to make the new SSD the main boot drive for windows. What are my options other than a full reinstall? Thanks

Spikey · 11 May 2020 at 12:12

Out of curiosity is it possible to keep data on my D drive and resi tall windows onto my new drive and erase data off my smaller SSD?

Spikey · 12 May 2020 at 13:26

voidshatter said:
I would just download any Linux distribution, boot into live session and use the

Code:

dd

command to clone from the old drive to the new drive.

Btw, it's impressive that your 840 EVO has survived for this long! It's presumably the most dangerous SSD ever made by Samsung in history

In what sense? I have noticed on occasion the drive will hang on boot up but that's about it.

Spikey · 12 May 2020 at 15:34

Nice to know haha!

Spikey · 12 May 2020 at 20:49

Well I have to say since using the 860 drive for Modern Warfare I get no issues with textures not loading now. I'll probably move on the 840 at some point.

Spikey · 19 May 2020 at 20:08

So actually having a weird issue since I've done a totally fresh windows 10 re-install. I now have the 860 1TB Evo as my main boot drive and the 250GB 840 EVO as the secondary drive, along with a WD drive for storage. Running the samsung magician shows the 840 is faster at random read / write now than the 860 evo? No idea why this is happening all of a sudden?