HELP - How to Migrate from old SSD to new SSD?

[AdelaisAer]

C'mon now....this isn't Windows fault! You said you wanted to migrate EVERYTHING. You did...successfully.

Recommendation: Move your personal data files to a different drive first...there's no point in including them in your system image. Shrink the OS drive to the smallest you can make it (in DIsk Management). Then make your system image of only that partition. (Making the partition smaller, and removing extraneous files, makes all this go faster.) Restore the image to the SSD. Extend the OS partition to use the whole drive. This really shouldn't take all that long.

I guess. I have too much crap on my OS partition, though. Personal stuff, that is. All my games are on my D: drive, which is a partition on my HDD. But still, moving all that will take just as long, so I might just do this normally. xD Well, alright. HERE I GO......*headdesk* I hate this. Lol.

[BrodyBoy]

I guess. I have too much crap on my OS partition, though. Personal stuff, that is. All my games are on my D: drive, which is a partition on my HDD. But still, moving all that will take just as long, so I might just do this normally. xD Well, alright. HERE I GO......*headdesk* I hate this. Lol.

This is one of the reasons it's a good idea to keep all those personal files on a separate drive. Keeping the Windows partition "clean & mean" makes it run better and makes it easier to back it up on a regular basis....which means you're more likely to actually do it.

[AdelaisAer]

It didn't work! ;_____; THAT STUPID 25GB PARTITION IS STILL IN FRONT. Wtffffffffffff....or did I do something wrong.

[BrodyBoy]

It didn't work! ;_____; THAT STUPID 25GB PARTITION IS STILL IN FRONT. Wtffffffffffff....or did I do something wrong.

It would be easier if you keep the whole discussion of your current SSD issue in one thread. (The two are mostly redundant and there's no advantage to having two separate threads trynig to carry on the same conversation.)

Again....did you get rid of the recovery partition first? Did you re-formate the whole SSD? And is the old SSD in the machine while you're doing all this?

[AdelaisAer]

It would be easier if you keep the whole discussion of your current SSD issue in one thread. (The two are mostly redundant and there's no advantage to having two separate threads trynig to carry on the same conversation.)

Again....did you get rid of the recovery partition first? Did you re-formate the whole SSD? And is the old SSD in the machine while you're doing all this?

Sorry about that. >_<; Iunno which of the threads to use now as the main one. :S But I guess we can stick to this one.

I am not even touching the old SSD anymore. It's in a box on a shelf now. No, I didn't delete the 25GB partition prior to making the image, and now I hate my life because i realize I should have done that. Lol...

[BrodyBoy]

Okay, cool...we'll keep it here.

................I hate my life.

lol! I know the feeling....but this, too, shall pass.

Look on the bright side.....if you take this opportunity to re-arrange your files so that your personal data files aren't on the OS drive, your Windows installation will be cleaner and easier to move, back-up, etc. And....next time you need to do this whole transfer thingy, you're gonna be SUCH a pro!

[BrodyBoy]

The thing is, though, I have Windows folders like My Pictures, My Music, etc., which I prefer to use, due to easier access. So I don't keep them on separate drives. Games, on the other hand, all go on my 7200rpm HDD.

Well, anyway, brb. Gonna try again. *sigh*

Ah, see that's the thing. You can move all those folders to your secondary drive and continue to use them the way you do now. They don't have to be on the OS drive...that's just where Windows installs them by default, because it has no way to know what other data drives you might have or use.

Basically, you open Windows Explorer, and drag those folders to their new locations. In the "Libraries" section, just have make sure that your default save locations (for various file types) are set to the locations you want.

(Example: The "Pictures" library can include whatever folders you want, but just one of them will be set as the default save location for image files. So if you drag the "My Photos" folder to the 2nd drive, you open the "Pictures" library properties and edit the listed locations to include that new location, and set it to the default, if that's what you want.)

[AdelaisAer]

Ah, see that's the thing. You can move all those folders to your secondary drive and continue to use them the way you do now. They don't have to be on the OS drive...that's just where Windows installs them by default, because it has no way to know what other data drives you might have or use.

Basically, you open Windows Explorer, and drag those folders to their new locations. In the "Libraries" section, just have make sure that your default save locations (for various file types) are set to the locations you want.

(Example: The "Pictures" library can include whatever folders you want, but just one of them will be set as the default save location for image files. So if you drag the "My Photos" folder to the 2nd drive, you open the "Pictures" library properties and edit the listed locations to include that new location, and set it to the default, if that's what you want.)

IT. IS. STILL. THERE. I deleted the 25GB partition, it became unallocated. Reformatted, repasted the image. The unallocated 25GB partition is STILL in front of the OS partition. WHAT DO I DO NOW. X___X; *EMO*

[BrodyBoy]

IT. IS. STILL. THERE. I deleted the 25GB partition, it became unallocated. Reformatted, repasted the image. The unallocated 25GB partition is STILL in front of the OS partition. WHAT DO I DO NOW. X___X; *EMO*

I'm thinking you must be selecting the option (in System Restore) to only restore to the existing system partition.

There is a box that you can check, or not, that says "Select this to delete any existing partitions and reformat all disks on this computer to match the layout of the system image." You must check that box.....do you remember whether you did or not?

[AdelaisAer]

I'm thinking you must be selecting the option (in System Restore) to only restore to the existing system partition.

There is a box that you can check, or not, that says "Select this to delete any existing partitions and reformat all disks on this computer to match the layout of the system image." You must check that box.....do you remember whether you did or not?

I am pretty sure I did. It's in ADVANCED, right? In the last window right before the whole shabang begins. Yes, both options were checked.

Is there anything else I can do...? What does new simple volume do? Will that help?