Move dataof multiple drives to new drive incl. Windows

[beginner99]

Basically I have a 80 GB Intel G2 SSD and it is just getting too small so a new SSD is required. The problem is that quite a few applications are installed an a HDD, say drive F: including windows folders like My Documents or My Pictures.

The question is how can I move all this to a new SSD? I have Acronis true image. I think it will be no issue to move the old windows install to the new SSD but the other data? Is that possible or do I have to do it manually (re-install and/or copy& paste)?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

A combination of manually and automated.

I'd first clone the 80GB SSD to a new one, and expand the partition to fill the available area.

After you get that working right, you can use Windows' built-in move function to move the My Documents, etc., folders back to the new, bigger, SSD.

The rest you copy back by hand, just drag and drop.

Why not keep the HDD as a data drive? Just too slow for you?

 

[beginner99]

Why not keep the HDD as a data drive? Just too slow for you?

well yeah you for documents stuff it is fine but the applications would benefit from the ssd and I guess they are the actual problem to move.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

well yeah you for documents stuff it is fine but the applications would benefit from the ssd and I guess they are the actual problem to move.

Yeah, depending on the app, if they're no on the drive letter, etc., where they were when they were installed, they might break.

Might not, but you never know and are usually safer reinstalling said app.

Or you could try moving them and see what works and what doesn't.

 

[mv2devnull]

Why do I have a recollection that one could assign a drive letter to a folder and then one would have a virtual second drive? Was it by sharing a folder and then mounting it to same machine with a drive letter?


The other way definitely works. I seem to have C:\Users. It is only a symlink to folder D:\Users. For added fun I have a symlink D:\Users\foo\bar (also seen as C:\Users\foo\bar) that points to folder C:\fastfiles