Windows 10: ELI5: How do I upgrade to a SSD and reinstall Windows onto it (I do not want to clone my...

Over the last year or so, I've noticed my computer was getting slower and slower. Now it's reached a point where it's almost unusable. It takes over 10 minutes (sometimes up to twenty) to boot up. And when it does, it's slow and sluggish. Opening task manager shows me that the disk is at 100% with only 10MB/s in use. I talked my my friend who's in college for comp sci (a freshman but he's still more knowledgeable then me), and he had me run a few malware scans and a cleaner. Neither worked. He then suspected it was my old as hell hard drive. He recommended that I change my hard drive for a new 1 terabyte SSD and reinstall the OS on that. To me, that sounded like a whole weekend of troubleshooting in order to get working, plus a few nights of redownloading all my favorite games. But if it works, it would be worth it.

I was reading around and I found that it is possible to clone my old hard drive onto the new SSD, but I don't want to do that. My PC has years worth of clutter and garbage and I don't even know where to begin with cleaning it. Call me whatever you want, but I want a clean start. I've already backed up any important files to the cloud, so I should be set for a clean install.

So how do I do that? There doesn't seem to be any simple explanations online.

Thanks in advance!

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Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

I kinda agree with you, but on a wholr, do not. While I have done things a bit differently than this specific situation, by installing Windows directly to the SSD, and cloning after, my testing shows that there are no issues doing this, very little that can go wrong, provided your system is stable.

There are certain features that must be disabled in this situation, like auto defrag and such, but even with a fresh install to the SSD, you need to take steps to ensure that you SSD performs properly, regardless of how the data got there.

Arming yourself with a bit of knowledge can go a long way.

Installing the latest chipset driver, and the RST Tools, will ensure optimal performance of the SSD. but rather than taking my advice, I suggest the OP takes a look here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sand...7-and-ssds-to-clone-windows-or-reinstall.aspx

Installing The SSD - Install A Solid State Drive In Your Notebook | Tom's Hardware

Keep in mind, also, Digibucc, that many retail drives include software and such that very specifically is to be used to ttranser the OS from an existing mechanical drive to an SSD, and if there really was alot fo issues stemming from the cloning process, they would not have packages like that, simply to eliminate tech support costs. While not the optimal option, cloning is NOT a bad thing, as long as you take the nessecary steps.

 

Moving to SSD. Clone or not to clone?

Part of how I keep my SSD fast is to clone it to a platter drive, then clone back. You just want to make sure that you are only cloning teh used space, and not the empty space.


So, again, I isntall Windows to the ssd. Clone to platter drive, then clone back.

I am not sure why, but if I do not do the clone step, the drive's speed, and windows booting, decreases substantially within a week or so.

I am using a Corsair F60 SSD and a Western Digital 500AAKS as drives, and using the free version of Acronis that WD provides, if any of that matters. I am not sure, at this point.

 

Cloning to SSD


Tried suggestion by NavyLCDR sam result no OS message.




This is SSD after step 1 creation of NTFS partition.





Here are contents of SSD after making image of HDD and copying to SSD





Here is content of HDD after copying image file from SSD to HDD


After a full restore, which completed with no errors, back to the SSD it looks like this





Which looks no different than before I started the whole thing off.

Will be committing suicide at the end of the day.*Sick