Windows 10: New SSD

Just installed a 500gb Crucial SSD and using Aomei partition tool to copy my boot drive onto the SSD, when done do I need to disable some win 10 maintenance tasks.?

I have read disk defragmentation tools can cause problems with an Ssd so is there anything I need to disable?

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New SSD

Hi,

The missing box and license that came with the OS... Is this the original OS on the machine, or the new Windows 10 Flash Drive ?

Have you ever installed the new Win 10 on the machine ?

Installing a new SSD and memory should not cause a problem with your old license, or with the new Windows 10... UNLESS the SSD requires you to change your machine from IDE to AHCI in Bios for the SSD to work...

That may or may not be a problem, but if it is, a call to Microsoft should resolve the problem... The biggest deal is the motherboard...

You might want to create a new Flash Drive though... The one you have probably has a older version of Windows 10 that will almost immediately try to upgrade...

If you did not upgrade from Win 7 or 8 to Win 10 with your new flash drive, you may have a problem... If you did a upgrade you would have a Digital License that would automatically activate by reading a code off of your motherboard... Things don't work this
way when you install a retail version of Win 10...

What you may be able to do is to put your old HDD back in and run a tool that will read the license key from the Registry... You can download a good simple one here... The download link is under the last picture...

How to view your product key in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7

 

New SSD

If you are using the same motherboard and retail version of 10, then you can install it on new drive and windows should auto activate it after or during install.

If it is possible to log onto that old defective drive

download this and run it and retrieve your activation key code

ProduKey - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office/SQL Server

Even an upgrade from 7 or 8 to 10, you should still be able to do clean install on new drive and activate.

 

Windows should see that you have a SSD now and disable it. SSD's use TRIM instead of defragging.


To double check that it all went as expected, head to your Start menu and type "defrag" in the search box. Click on "Disk Defragmenter". Click on "Configure Schedule" and hit "Select Disks". If all went well, Windows will realize it's on an SSD and your SSD won't even be an option in this menu (if you're on Windows 8, it will show up in the list as an SSD instead, and defragmentation will be disabled).
Lastly, we'll want to make sure TRIM is turned on, which keeps your drive from slowing down over time. Open up a Command Prompt and type in:
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify
It will either give you a 0 or a 1 as a result. If you get a zero, that means TRIM is enabled. If you get a 1, make sure you have a TRIM-compatible SSD—you may have to Google your SSD's model number to find out.

 

Just run winsat formal in an admin command prompt and reboot, Windows will take care of the rest. Windows 8 and 10 were designed with SSD's in mind. The ONLY thing YOU need to do is make sure AHCI is turned on in BIOS*Nerd

 

As said windows will do it all for you.

 

Windows didn't so I turned off defrag on the maintenance app, but I have lost my xp dual boot from the mbr, anyway to restore?

 

Turned maintenance back on for all drives as when I press optimize it says trimming drive so thats cool. Any I downloaded visual bcdedit and fixed my dual boot problem after cloning.

 

I was reading this thread out of curiosity and decided to check since I'm using an SSD. TRIM is turned on, but Windows is showing the SSD as available for defragging. I turned off the scheduler because it seemed to be my only option. I can always defrag my data drive manually.