Windows 10: Cannot migrate windows 10 from HDD to SSD

Hello,

I have a pc which I recently bought a SSD for it, but I have trouble copying windows 10 to the SSD. The HDD partition table looks like this: BOOT MANAGER - A PARTITION - WINDOWS PARTITON - ANOTHER PARTITON.

Well I had tried to copy the Boot manager and windows partition only, due to the size of the SDD (525GB vs 1TB). Then tried to boot from the SSD, the Windows Logo appears and 5 - 10 seconds later more or less the windows logo dissapear to a black screen without cursor, but if I move the mouse then the cursor appear and after a few seconds dissapear again. Doesn't work Ctrl+Shift+ESC to open task manager. Also occurs the same in safe mode, but this time when I move the cursor then the safe mode texts at top and bottom of the screen appears dissapearing a few seconds later.

Is there an option to copy this windows to the SSD without reinstalling it?

PS: I know that formatting the computer may be faster, but I would like to conserve the way I configured Windows and some applications without needing to reconfigure it.

Thanks

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Conversion to Windows 10

I converted from Windows 7 Professional to Windows 10 Professional. I then migrated Windows 10 from an HDD to an SSD. I kept the HDD for data files. I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 clean, which cleaned everything from the SSD. There is a system
Volume Information folder on the SSD and it is about 6gb. I still have a System Volume Information folder on the HDD and it is 48gb. I also keep the Window Image Backup on the HDD and it appears to be in its own folder (WindowsImageBackup) and is 26gb. The
apps (programs) are kept on the SSD along with the operating system. Can I delete the System Volume Information folder from the HDD? I feel it is a leftover from when the system was migrated over to the SSD from the HDD. Any assistance is appreciated.

 

Windows 10 migration

To migrate Windows 10 from HDD to SSD, here are many different ways. But here I would like to introduce the most simple method, that is using a software AOMEI Backupper, and you can

migrate Windows 10 to SSD with a few steps. with this way, you need to prepare an SSD which is enough to store the system files before.

 

Please post a screen shot of disk management
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and how did you copy those partitions ?

 

When I went from conventional hard drive to SSD, I made a disc image (all partitions) of the hard drive with Macrium Reflect to a separate drive. Then "restored" the disc image to the new SSD. It created all the needed partitions.

I tried a "clone" with the program provided with my Samsung SSD, the clone application in Macrium Reflect and the clone from another program and they all were a bust. Only the image method worked for me.

 

I used clonezilla to clone the two partitions. I will update with a screenshot as soon as I can access to the computer. Thanks

Thanks for the tip. I will try it.

 

When you booted the computer after the cloning to the SSD, did you still have the old HDD connected? It should be disconnected the first time you attempt to boot from the SSD to avoid mixing booting from a system partition on one drive and loading the OS from the boot partition on the other drive.

This might help you:
Computer wouldn't boot after cloning to SSD

Partition cloning/copying will work just fine for moving to an SSD.
Make sure to keep GPT or MBR partitioning type. The SSD needs to be the same as the HDD was.

MiniTool Partition Wizard:
Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free

After you get the computer booting properly from the SSD, I would suggest you compress the OS on it:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

 

Thanks for all of your response. Finally I migrated the Windows and the boot partition to the ssd with macrium. Cleared first the SSD with diskpart and then cloned the two partitions with macrium.