How to migrate from 1 HDD (3 partitions) to 2 SSD and 1 HDD?

funko

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SOrry, I tried to google and read forums for several days and could only find topics helping people moving their primary HDD to a primary SSD.

I have 3 physical HDD in my computer

1 of them has 3 partitions
-1 of which is my boot partition with Win 7 x64 HP (C) (200GB)
-1 is my games install (D) (200GB)
-1 is media/documents (E) which i wil just copy over to unused space on my other drives

the other 2 physical drives are media, and I want to leave them as-is

-I would like to migrate my C boot partition to a 240GB new SSD
-At the same time I would like to migrate my D partition to a 160GB new SSD (it is using only 90GB of the 200GB right now)

Looking at my options in Macrium Reflect, I can make images of my partitions, or clone a single partition to a new SSD

Is it possible to Clone my 'C' partition to my first new SSD
Then clone my 'D' partition to my 2nd new SSD

then just physically disconnect my original physical drive with Partitions 'C' 'D' 'E'

Boot with my 2 new SSDs as the new 'C' and 'D'

Then just be able to work without my old HDD?
 

Elixer

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Unsure if that program will fix the alignment going from HD to SSD, but, yeah, you would image/clone them.

Also note, that you are cutting it close on the SSD space, since you won't have much left for upkeep / TRIM / garbage collection. Some SSDs performance tanks if it gets close to getting full.
 

postmortemIA

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for D you can simply copy the contents in windows. you will not get new one to be D however, windows will assign a new drive letter. Unless you never boot up with old one connected.
BTW i think better approach would be one bigger SSD instead two smaller.
 

funko

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thanks guys!

yeah i plan on checking/fixing alignment right after i boot up with the new drives

and i'll try to keep the 2nd drive D: but if not, no biggie!

i would have gotten 1 big SSD, but i had a old one on hand and some extra paypal for a 2nd one...hence....2!