Moving SSD and HDD system data to one SSD

[Charlie98]

When I built my computer I bought a 60MB SSD to install the W7 OS on, planning to put the lesser used or bigger programs on the storage HDD. What I've decided (hindsight being 20/20... 🙄 ) is to get a bigger SSD (120GB) and just put everything (OS and program files) on it and be done.

How hard is it going to be to copy system files from two different drives over to one? I understand I can image the primary (SSD) drive and that would be about 75% of the job, but my question is how to get the files off the HDD. Do I just drag and drop? Or am I going to be missing some files?

 

[Dahak]

Depending on whats stored on the hdd, if they are just data folders that you created, just drag and drop. if they are folders that windows created. ie if you changed the locations of the my docs, then you would have to revert that back to default and then copy over the data

 

[Pinecone-sw]

Are you planning on partitioning the bigger SSD?

If so, just copy the HDD to the partition on the SSD.

If not, you may have to reinstall some programs (typically no loss of settings) or at least change pointers.

Some drive utilities have the ability to "move" programs and pointers.

 

[Charlie98]

Are you planning on partitioning the bigger SSD?

If so, just copy the HDD to the partition on the SSD.

If not, you may have to reinstall some programs (typically no loss of settings) or at least change pointers.

Some drive utilities have the ability to "move" programs and pointers.

No, the new SSD would be the system disk, and I would revert the current split HDD to just storage.

I don't really have very many programs on the HDD, I may wind up just reinstalling them, that would probably be the sure bet.