Windows 10: Is there any possible way to migrate JUST my OS to an SSD?

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  1. /U/DRIEDOUTMARKER
    /u/driedoutmarker Win User

    Is there any possible way to migrate JUST my OS to an SSD?


    A while back I had some issues with my pc. It's a long story, but I needed to do a clean install of windows, which ended up on my hard drive rather than my SSD. My pc has been running fine since then, but I wanted to move my OS back to my SSD. The only issue is, the only solution I've found is to clone the entire disk to my SSD, which I (obviously) can't do, considering I have 800+ GB of stuff on the drive where my OS is currently stored and my SSD is only around 120 GB. Is there any possible way I can move ONLY my OS and system files to my SSD without having to do a clean install of Windows again?

    Edit: I'm hoping this isn't the wrong subreddit to post this on, so sorry if this post should go somewhere else!

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    /u/driedoutmarker, Jun 9, 2020
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  2. DAVEDE LIBERATO
    DaveDe Liberato Win User

    Migrate OS to SSD

    I cannot figure out how to move windows 10 os to new SSD. The C drive is not partitioned so the 1.8 TB drive is trying to migrate to the 500gb SSD, which it will not allow me to do. Is there a way to seperate just the OS from the C drive ?
     
    DaveDe Liberato, Jun 9, 2020
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  3. MARCOCATELLA
    marcocatella Win User
    OS migration to ssd

    I want to migrate my OS to my new ssd, but with the softwares I've downloaded can only move the whole C: drive, but my ssd only has 223gb of storage and I've got in my HDD 500gb of stored stuff. To solve this I made a partition to move all the files that
    weren't files of the OS. When I tried to do this I couldn't move such files. Is there a way to move all my files from the C: drive to the partition or to manually move my OS to the ssd?
     
    marcocatella, Jun 9, 2020
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  4. TIM GOSLING
    Tim Gosling Win User

    Is there any possible way to migrate JUST my OS to an SSD?

    OS Migration

    I have a PC that has become very slow at booting up. Sometimes it takes so long to be ready to use, I have to re-boot it again in order for it so be useable at all. It has 2 x 1TB HDDs in it & the one with the OS on it is at about 95% full. So I guess that
    this could be the reason it is so slow to get going.

    • Would it improve it at all if I was to migrate the OS onto an SSD?
    • Is it possible to migrate the OS alone to the SSD & leave all the data on the HDD?
    • If it is, what then happens to the OS on the HDD?
    • Also what happens to access to existing data in Windows folders like Documents, music etc?
    So many questions.

    This is probably in the wrong section but I couldn't find anything appropriate.
     
    Tim Gosling, Jun 9, 2020
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