How to Move Windows 10 from HDD to SSD - Quick Tutorial 2023

This is Jim Tour on the channel today .

I'm going to show you how to move a Windows 10 installation from a regular hard drive to a solid state drive quickly .

Well , here it is the new hard drive I shall install .

And I chosen the size of two terabyte to replace the drive I already have .

So we have this little rack from our computer and it's a little bit big .

Fortunately , we have this little metal thing here which we can put inside the bigger rack and put it in this little tray here .

And now we're ready to insert it , power off and unplug your computer here on the motherboard .

You can see this , this is a sata connector or serial A T A .

Now , this is the data connector uh We will be using for this drive .

It might be different if you bought an M two drive , which you'll need to insert it in the M two slot .

But this is a serial A drive .

And here on the theta express , it's uh different types of speeds .

Set express is one of the quicker ones .

We have Setta three , which is six gigabit per second .

That is also something you want to use if you have a serial , a one which this cable goes to , which is obstructed here and it goes to my DVD writer and it's serial 81 .

And that is a bit slow for like modern hard drives .

So make sure it's a serial , a three set express or one of the quicker ones , insert a little cable there just like that .

All right .

And now we see the hardware cabinet here , we can drag out this .

This is my current uh little , all right .

You can see it like right there .

It's connected with power and a serial data cable .

Let's put this back in securely , expose the serial data cable we connected and the power , we bring the new hard drive and connect them up .

Now we can insert this one securely and there the SST is installed in the system .

We can now begin to migrate our entire system .

So let's close this computer up and turn it on in this little manual here .

You can see some basic instructions for M 0.2 SSD installation .

If that is the type you got , if you're doing this on a laptop , you can see that you'll need a little adapter to connect the hard drive to be able to migrate the system to it .

Since you can't usually have two hard drives installed at the same time in a laptop .

However , some laptops have that ability .

So open it up and check that yourself .

When we started the computer , we can first check if the drive even exists now .

Right , click your windows and select control panel or find it by search in control panel , you just search for disk and here you can see , create and former hardware disk partitions launch that .

Here .

We can see we have the disc one , which is this one here , unallocated .

This is the SSD and it's connected and working before cloning over the drive .

There are some things we want to do to prepare .

One of these things is simply get rid of a lot of unnecessary files .

SSD drives may have newer firmware upgrades and this might improve the performance .

So go to your manufacturer and see if they can provide you to uh download links for new firmware .

Basically , I'm going to use the utility tool , Samsung magician to install the new firmware .

Then we also have the Macri software .

We are going to use Mac Room reflect seven free .

Now just go to the links in the description and you find this software here .

You can see this here reflect free or when we are on this page , we can select home use here .

You're requested to provide your email .

This is not necessary .

Click continue , let it download and install this software just like that and we click download here .

You click next , accept the terms and next , then you select the home version and next want to register for this and you click next desktop shortcut is something I want .

Yes and just click install .

Uh Samsung Magician is installed .

And what you can do is you can go to uh drive details and in the drive details , you find your drive .

Here , here is my Samsung Evo .

And here we can select update firmware .

It's just basically clicking .

OK .

But it will restart the computer when you do that .

So do that later , go to administrative tools and then you see the fragment and optimized drives .

Now , if you run a drive like me , a hard drive HTD spinning disk , it will , it will be fragmented and to defrag it , you go into here and you click optimize and doing this will make it run a little smoother and it's also precaution .

So nothing goes wrong .

So I really would def fragment a drive before copying it over .

All right , the fragment is done and all scans are run complete .

Fantastic .

So now I will update the firmware .

If you don't need to update any firmware , you might as well restart the computer anyways to make sure that all the deleted files are really deleted anyways I update is firmer .

Restart the computer and then we will begin migrating to drive to DS SD .

Computer has been scanned .

Computer has been cleaned of unnecessary files and the computer has been de fragmented .

Now , we are ready to clone the disk using macro reflect seven free edition .

But first to make sure nothing changes during the process , it's best to disconnect the internet .

So turn off your wifi or unplug the computer's internet .

Internet is now disconnected as you can see in the lower right corner .

Ok .

Make sure that all programs are turned off when you're doing the imaging process and don't work on your computer .

Just leave it be and do nothing with internet disconnected and we can start Mack Room Reflect seven .

Here you see the driver and here you see the driver you want to copy too .

So what we do is we click clone this disk .

Now , select a disk to clone to and make sure you select the right disk .

Now , what you want to do is you want to drag down all of these done .

We can uh click on clone partition properties and here we see our primary drive here .

And uh what we can do here is we can increase and decrease the size .

If your drive , your coping two is much larger , you can make this larger or smaller when copying to an SSD .

The life span of the SSD will be longer if you do something that's called over provisioning , that means leaving some of the space unallocated , just not formatted and just leave it be nothing on that part .

And uh the amount that you want to leave on all located is about 10 to 20% .

So we will go and select something around 200 gigabytes of an allocated space .

Then you will click .

OK ?

And now we can click next , we click next and here we can see the operation , copy two partition and we copy over all these parts .

We need to copy over all the parts to make sure it's a clone .

If we do not copy over a part and you don't know what it's doing , something may stop working .

That's why we just copy over all the parts and done .

We'll click , finish it .

Now asks us if we want to make a save of these options , we just selected .

Now , it will start to clone the system .

If you're asked to confirm this override of the data to be overwritten , make sure you've selected the right drive and click .

Continue .

Now just let it copy over and leave it be , we turn off our computer and well , we open it up because now it's time to switch the drives , the easiest and best way to do this is to take the old drive disconnect its the cable , the data cable and the power cable .

Then you take the new drive , drag it out and uh you switch the old Setta cable and then you instead connect in the Setta cable of the drive , you're replacing .

Now this drive , we just replaced , we need to lay it to rest .

Because if we have any type of issues with our new drive , we want the old drive to be available to us if we need to use it .

If the new drive is working or fails because of this , I will let my drive lay unused for about a month before I write it over .

Now , let's try and start a computer .

You don't always have to do this , but you might need to set the boot menu to set up the boot menu .

You will need to get into Bio , which you can do by delete .

You can also go into the boot menu directly if you have that option .

But I'm just going to bio buy some features or anything else that seems relevant and you will find boot option under your boot options .

You want to set the boot option , one to Windows boot manager .

So windows boot manager should be the first boot option .

Then we can just click save and exit , save and exit , set up .

We cannot let the computer boot and there we have it .

Computer successfully gets into Windows .

Well , I hope that this tutorial has been very useful for you to clone over your system to a new drive .

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This is Jim Total .

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