Windows 10: How do I Prepare a New SSD for Win 10 Install

I think I my have fudged my install a little. I used minitool partition wizard to recover the 450MB recovery partition and may have went the wrong way about it. So..........

How do I Prepare a New SSD for Win 10 Pro Install, and what partitions should be present before and after the install.
And what partitions do I not touch?

Installed from USB media with Win 7 Pro Key.
I am having problems getting a Macrium restored image disk to boot. I may have something hidden, I dunno.

Thanks

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win 10 and new ssd

I found similar queries but not the answer i quite need. I'm thinking of buying a new ssd and then installing win 10 to it as my current 1TB hdd is running low on space. I'm currently running win 10 on the hdd so the question is 3-fold.



1)how do i proceed to install win 10 on the new ssd

2)how do I remove win 10 from my hdd after installing it to my new ssd

3(can i do all this without having to wipe my hdd as it took nearly a week to re-install all my games and programs last time when I upgrade from 8.1 to 10 and it wiped my HDD.

 

Migrating OS to new SSD

I currently have WIN 10 installed on my current 120gb SSD, I upgraded to WIN 10 from WIN 8 (I still have the key for WIN 8), I want to replace my current SSD for my new 500gb SSD, how can I migrate to the new SSD (note, I don't want to keep anything i
currently have on my SSD, I essentially want a fresh install)

 

Welcome to the forum. You don't need to do anything simply boot windows and let it create partition

 

yea these days Windows can recognise an SSD and set things up properly. One thing you might want to do is to disable the scheduled defrag after installation and do it manually. The built in defragger can recognise SSDs and act accordingly.

 

This does not apply to a new uninitiated SSD or HDD which windows should initiate and format/partition just fine .

I had my SSD on MBR and NTFS in the recently flamed out daily grinder PC .

Prior to putting it in the brand new UFEI /GPT PC in my specs with a clean 14905 dual boot install I tried to format and delete the MBR /NTFS partitions using disk manager in the new PC and it would not delete or format the recovery volumes at all like it would in the old MBR legacy BIOS PC .

I used the simple Windows elevated command DISKPART routines to clean the Drive and initiate GPT then it formatted to NTFS normally in Drive Manager and Windows installed normally and handled the new GPT partitions all on it's own *Party

 

I do that too *chuckle

 

I have always done that too. However, I found out today that the 'Defragger' does not defrag an SSD but 'Trims' it.

 

Thats useful to know. I was always unsure whether the schedule behaved in the same way as doing it manually. Would the scheduler know how to handle it.

 

I am going to assume so. It can detect which drives are Hard Drives and which are SSDs. This is what mine looks like.

 

Thanks, Looks like I'm good to go. I guess I need to post in a thread on Macrium to find out why my images will not boot.

 

Maybe it is a matter of semantics, but images do not boot. You need to create the rescue media in Macrium. You boot from the rescue Media.

 

Thanks, But I meant after creating an image, then restoring it to an empty drive I cannot boot from it. I disconnect all other drives and try to come up to it and fail.

 

With both your current OS drive and the drive with the restored image connected, please post a screenshot of Disk Management. This will tell you how. Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of

This will tell you how to post a screenshot https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

When you made the image, did you verify it?

Read over this tutorial. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...p-restore.html You can ship part 4 about Incremental and Differential images.

 

Thanks,
Its a can-o-worms but I'll open it if you like. I am new to this and want to practice restoring an image to a disk and successfully booting it up and running.
First, please note I may be pushing the envelope because I imaged a 1TB SSD C:\ and restored the image to a 750GB HDD. I was told it shouldn't matter as long as the space is available. I'm not so sure.

The verification came back "OK". I don't know how because when I open the C:\ I imaged, and the drive I restored to side by side and do a properties they report different capacities.
So I started doing comparison properties on folders in each drive and found several folders on the restored image drive to report 0 bytes. When I tried to open the empty folders I get,


I was going to try and populate these folders correctly. I cant open, copy to, or delete them. Not even in an elevated command prompt. I know its not what I should have to do but I'm game. I get the same error in the command line window.
When I try to boot to the restored image drive its the only one connected. It comes up saying to insert bootable media,
Here is the screen shot you requested.
Disk 1 is my USB 3.0 camera card reader.
Disk 2 is a secure key USB Stick for banking.
Disk 4 is the restored imaged drive. I run Win10 Pro x64. Thanks