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    Question about installing Windows again on new SSD and remain everything in existing HDD of...


    I'm looking for a proper procedure of how I should do it.

    My scenario:
    Current HDD with 1TB space in 2 partitions(Drive C for OS and Programs, Drive D for documents,music,movies,etc).

    I've one M.2 SSD which newly installed(Samsung 860 Evo) and would like to make it become the OS drive by reinstalling Windows to get "fresh install".

    BIOS SATA Setting: RAID mode, which I would like to change to AHCI mode cause it provides better performance for SSD(correct me if I'm wrong)

    My possible solutions:
    1. Unplug HDD from my laptop
    2. Go to BIOS change SATA setting from RAID to AHCI(Am I able to do this after I remove HDD or I should do this before I remove my HDD?)
    3. Install M.2 SSD on my laptop
    4. Plug in Windows Creation Bootable PENDRIVE
    5. Install the Windows on SSD
    6. Plug in my HDD to get back all my files(At this point I understood the programs may not be used again and I have to reinstall all the programs)

    Does my solutions correct or some of the sequence is wrong? Please correct me because I don't want to lose any data by doing this.

    :)
     
    mrkhew, Oct 4, 2018
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  2. HDD to new SSD Question

    I'm going to upgrade my laptop with a SSD along side my HDD which currently has windows 10 on it, or course. My question is, is it possible to move that version of windows 10 on the new SSD and boot it from there or do I just have to run a clean version
    from the SSD?
     
    Rodrick Boley, Oct 4, 2018
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  3. Fresh Install of Windows 10 Home in new SSD

    I have this Dell N4010 Laptop that I want to upgrade with an SSD and use the existing HDD as Data drive. I have an original windows of digital license.

    Please suggest how I can install a fresh copy of the windows in my new SSD with the existing license. And please suggest how to activate the new installation of Windows.
     
    Fahim.Anwar, Oct 4, 2018
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  4. Question about installing Windows again on new SSD and remain everything in existing HDD of...

    Windows 10 on HDD to a new SSD

    I have recently replaced the 500 GB HDD in my laptop running Windows 10 with a 480 GB SSD. The laptop was fully configured with my applications and other settings. The steps I took were as follows:

    1) Shrink the C: drive so it was significantly smaller than the SSD (by at least 100 GB) using the Disk Management tools in W10.

    2) Copy all the files from D: onto an external HDD.

    3) Download Ubuntu Linux and burn on to a DVD.

    4) Download Windows 10 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and burn this on to a DVD.

    5) Close down and boot the laptop from the Ubuntu DVD from step 3 (I used a USB DVD rewriter).

    6) Plug in the external HDD.

    7) Open a Linux terminal and cd to the external HDD.

    8) Copy the C: partition to the external HDD using a command such as:

    dd bs=1024k if=/dev/sda1 of=C-drive

    where sda1 is adjusted to point to the correct partition.

    9) Close down and remove the external HDD.

    10) Remove the HDD and replace with the SSD.

    11) Perform a clean install Windows 10 from the DVD from step 4. Deleting all partitions from the SSD if it has had any created on it. When it asked for the product key, there was an option to enter it later. Make sure that the C: drive that is created is
    the same size or bigger than the C: drive was on the HDD.

    12) Repeat steps 5, 6 and 7 then run the command

    dd bs=1024k if=C-drive of=/dev/sda4

    With the clean install of W10 64bit, sda4 was the C: drive on the SSD after the installation.

    13) Reboot from the SSD. The first couple of times my laptop reported errors and went into repair and diagnostic cycles. The last one said something like Reboot or Go to further tools. I cannot remember the exact messages but the meaning was as I have described.
    I rebooted and Windows 10 came up and ran perfectly.

    14) With the SSD working I shrank the C: drive a few GB to make sure the physical space was the same size as the actual filesystem.

    15) Create a D: format it and copy all the saved files on to the new D: from the external HDD.

    Job done. All my applications worked perfectly and the laptop connected to my wireless network without needing the pass phrase re-entering. I had tried several other ways of cloning the HDD to the SSD, but as the SSD was 20 GB smaller this was the only way
    I managed to get it to work.

    I hope this helps others to make the HDD to SSD transition.
     
    Grangeland, Oct 4, 2018
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