Windows 10: Copying Windows 10 Pro from Hard Disk Drive HDD to Solid State Drive SDD

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I was given a Desktop computer installed with 2 TB of HDD storage. recently, in the quest for more storage, and more space. After finding several migration tools, all of them **** and one potentially malicious, I started a device recovery. it failed and I am currently attempting to create a recovery drive by using some external storage, again.

I would like to know if there is another, easier option that I could be taking, and why is it so very difficult to just plomp the OS from one disk to the other?

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD) seen as Solid State Drive in Optimize Drives

Hi there,

I've noticed that when I tried to optimize and run defragmentation on my hard drive, the Optimize Drive window shows that I have only Solid State Drives. Which is not true because I have a 500 GB HDD plus a small SDD (for booting up i think).



By the way, here is my hardware from my C:\ drive :



Wondering if you guys know what to do about this?

Thanks.

 

SSD is reported as "Hard Disk Drive" instead of "Solid Sate Drive" in Windows 10 "Optimise Drives" display,

Hi,

I recently cloned my complete Windows 10 installation from a hard drive to a Crucial SSD using the Acronis Cloning software that Crucial supplied. After cloning, I removed the old hard drive and was happy to see that Windows loads fine from the new SDD,
and everything seemed to be working fine.

However I have now noticed that the SSD (which is now my 'Drive C:') is still listed as a 'Hard Disk Drive' when I bring up the Defrag and Optimise Drive app and not as "Solid State Drive".

This is worrying me as I understood that Windows needs to correctly recognise the drive as a solid state drive in order to apply the correct optimisation policies.

My question is how can I make Wiondows 10 correctly treat the drive as a Solid State Drive?

Regards

Dave

 

Moving windows from a hard drive to a solid state drive

i have windows 10 installed on my 1tb western digital blue hdd right now it. My computer came with windows 10 pre installed and id like to move it from the hard drive it originally came on to a solid state drive i bought recently but from what ive gathered
on apparently for some reason there is no way to just transfer all windows files from my hard drive to my solid state so that i am able to boot windows from my solid state. so from what ive gathered the best way to do this would be to reinstall windows and
choose my solid state as the download location. but i do not have a windows disk as my computer came with windows pre installed so i believe id have to use the windows media creation tool and either burn it to a disk or create a usb. but i do not have a product
key to activate windows after doing so because my windows is from the OEM so im wondering if i will have to activate my windows or will it automatically recognize that my computer has an OEM key attached to it. there is no sticker or card that came with the
computer so i assume the key is attached to my hardware someway or another. so if i use the media creation tool to create a usb for a clean windows 10 install to my solid state will i have to activate windows or will it be automatic and can i keep all my other
files on my hard drive with no problems? this is a very confusing just to get windows from one drive to another, i just want to be able to boot from my solid state, will i have to redownload programs if the are already on my hard drive? i plan to keep the
hard drive for storage and just put a few things including my OS onto the solid state, for reference my hard drive is a 1tb WD blue and my solid state is a crucial mx500 500gb my computer is an hp omen 870-224