Bought 1st SSD, Win10 question?

[Phil McCraken]

Not sure how to fully word this correctly, but hopefully someone can understand and help me out 😛

So i ordered my ssd and i want to put my 8.1 copy on it. So i have the disc and key so i should have no trouble there. But once win10 comes out will i still be able to upgrade since its not the original disk i put 8.1 on?

Also once i get windows on my ssd will i have to wipe my hdd or will the os still be able to detect my paths for everything? or will it be lost since the os is now on the ssd and the paths will no longer work on the hdd?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Not sure how to fully word this correctly, but hopefully someone can understand and help me out 😛

So i ordered my ssd and i want to put my 8.1 copy on it. So i have the disc and key so i should have no trouble there. But once win10 comes out will i still be able to upgrade since its not the original disk i put 8.1 on?

Also once i get windows on my ssd will i have to wipe my hdd or will the os still be able to detect my paths for everything? or will it be lost since the os is now on the ssd and the paths will no longer work on the hdd?

You should be able to simply clone the HDD that preceded the SSD. The right tool, such as Acronis DD 11, True-Image 2013 or later. For $5 you can get Parted Magic, which (I believe) has a cloning capability.

If you had all sorts of Event Log errors and trouble with the machine's previous configuration, then I advise re-installing from scratch. Otherwise, you can probably correct to eliminate this or that error not known as benign on the HDD installation, de-fragment the drive, and then clone it to the SSD.

You could also run SFC /SCANNOW from the command window, and see if any repair failures or missing files have anything to do with currently installed software or the OS. You can use CHKDSK with the proper parameters to repair files, indexes and so forth, or even identify, attempt repair, and mark bad blocks on all the physical space of the drive.

Then you're sure of a very nice clone to your SSD.

 

[Phil McCraken]

You should be able to simply clone the HDD that preceded the SSD. The right tool, such as Acronis DD 11, True-Image 2013 or later. For $5 you can get Parted Magic, which (I believe) has a cloning capability.

If you had all sorts of Event Log errors and trouble with the machine's previous configuration, then I advise re-installing from scratch. Otherwise, you can probably correct to eliminate this or that error not known as benign on the HDD installation, de-fragment the drive, and then clone it to the SSD.

You could also run SFC /SCANNOW from the command window, and see if any repair failures or missing files have anything to do with currently installed software or the OS. You can use CHKDSK with the proper parameters to repair files, indexes and so forth, or even identify, attempt repair, and mark bad blocks on all the physical space of the drive.

Then you're sure of a very nice clone to your SSD.

My current install of all my stuff is way bigger than my ssd. i only got a 120gb ssd. For win10, LoL and WoW. Thats it. Rest of my stuff will be on my hdd

 

[BonzaiDuck]

My current install of all my stuff is way bigger than my ssd. i only got a 120gb ssd. For win10, LoL and WoW. Thats it. Rest of my stuff will be on my hdd

You could use the full 120GB drive for caching a very large HDD -- 2TB to 4 or 6 -- I haven't kept up with how big they're getting.

The best way to do that is pay for a license single-seat for Primo-Cache, unless you want to pay 2.5X for a 3-PC license.

I've seen some great deals at Newegg for some top-end 500GB SSDs, either MX200 or BX100. If you can get those for $190, it's the best price you could expect for now. Save your money, read some reviews, indulge yourself next Xmas on behalf of your family.

The caching can result in 80% full SSD performance, but for the whole accelerated HDD, and most likely in certain computer-user usage profiles. That is, benchmarks may show the configuration to have stellar speed and performance, but the usage profile will have varying benefits accruing concurrently.

Others will advise something else. I say you can make it work as long as you'd like. The price breaks on the bigger drives are coming in slivers here and there. When you get the larger SSD, you can cache both it and the accelerated drive to RAM with the same program.

 

[Ketchup]

I do like BD's option. You have gotten such a small drive, I don't know that you would want to mess with the size limitation.

As far as Windows installaion, you will be fine to re-install Windows. It recognizes the install by the key, not necessarily by the drive it's on. An OEM key might say something for general hardware changes, but I have never seen an OEM copy throw up caution due to a drive swap.

 

[Berryracer]

You should be able to simply clone the HDD that preceded the SSD. The right tool, such as Acronis DD 11, True-Image 2013 or later. For $5 you can get Parted Magic, which (I believe) has a cloning capability.

If you had all sorts of Event Log errors and trouble with the machine's previous configuration, then I advise re-installing from scratch. Otherwise, you can probably correct to eliminate this or that error not known as benign on the HDD installation, de-fragment the drive, and then clone it to the SSD.

You could also run SFC /SCANNOW from the command window, and see if any repair failures or missing files have anything to do with currently installed software or the OS. You can use CHKDSK with the proper parameters to repair files, indexes and so forth, or even identify, attempt repair, and mark bad blocks on all the physical space of the drive.

Then you're sure of a very nice clone to your SSD.

you don't need any of that and don't need to pay a penny

1) connect your new SSD to an external USB 3.0 enclosure and plug it in to your computer

2) Install Macrium Reflect Free then run it

3) Click on the source disk and choose clone this disk as shown in the image below:

4) Choose the destination disk, in this case, your USB enclosure which has the new SSD in it

5) Once the process is done, swap the disks and change the BIOS boot order to the new SSD then format the old disk if you still wanna use it as a normal data drive