Upgrading to an SSD? Try this...
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AOMEI Partition Assistant: powerful and easy tool to maintain hard drive and partition[^] - it's free, and includes an option to "Migrate OS to SSD". I tried it today. OK, I backed up another full disk image last night first, but... It worked. Very easy to use, quick - less than half an hour - and all I had to do was manually enter BIOS and tell it which disk to boot from because I don't use UEFI but Legacy Bios (my motherboard doesn't have a UEFI option). If you use UEFI you shouldn't even need to do that! I was expecting it to be a whole lot harder - I'll leave the "Old" hdd boot partition there for a month or so in case of problems, but the migration was a lot simpler than I thought it would be. So simple in fact that I wasn't sure if it had worked at all - until I opened VS in seconds instead of minutes! :omg:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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AOMEI Partition Assistant: powerful and easy tool to maintain hard drive and partition[^] - it's free, and includes an option to "Migrate OS to SSD". I tried it today. OK, I backed up another full disk image last night first, but... It worked. Very easy to use, quick - less than half an hour - and all I had to do was manually enter BIOS and tell it which disk to boot from because I don't use UEFI but Legacy Bios (my motherboard doesn't have a UEFI option). If you use UEFI you shouldn't even need to do that! I was expecting it to be a whole lot harder - I'll leave the "Old" hdd boot partition there for a month or so in case of problems, but the migration was a lot simpler than I thought it would be. So simple in fact that I wasn't sure if it had worked at all - until I opened VS in seconds instead of minutes! :omg:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I tried it and it was all right. Works well and speeds everything up.
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AOMEI Partition Assistant: powerful and easy tool to maintain hard drive and partition[^] - it's free, and includes an option to "Migrate OS to SSD". I tried it today. OK, I backed up another full disk image last night first, but... It worked. Very easy to use, quick - less than half an hour - and all I had to do was manually enter BIOS and tell it which disk to boot from because I don't use UEFI but Legacy Bios (my motherboard doesn't have a UEFI option). If you use UEFI you shouldn't even need to do that! I was expecting it to be a whole lot harder - I'll leave the "Old" hdd boot partition there for a month or so in case of problems, but the migration was a lot simpler than I thought it would be. So simple in fact that I wasn't sure if it had worked at all - until I opened VS in seconds instead of minutes! :omg:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Does it possible to move the whole Windows OS from HDD to SSD or an old SSD to a new one without hurting the OS? Such as broken, error (BSOD), or can't work properly.
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Does it possible to move the whole Windows OS from HDD to SSD or an old SSD to a new one without hurting the OS? Such as broken, error (BSOD), or can't work properly.
Did for me! I did a image backup before I started just in case, but it did all the work - the only thing I had to do afterwards was check the BIOS to make sure the PC would boot from the right device. If you use UEFI instead of BIOS booting (i.e. GPT instead of legacy) then I believe it gets that right as well. I'm still running on the SSD it created 4 months later without any problems from OS or apps. Then a month after I swapped, I used it again to "recycle" the old OS partition and extend my data partition to fill the HDD.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Did for me! I did a image backup before I started just in case, but it did all the work - the only thing I had to do afterwards was check the BIOS to make sure the PC would boot from the right device. If you use UEFI instead of BIOS booting (i.e. GPT instead of legacy) then I believe it gets that right as well. I'm still running on the SSD it created 4 months later without any problems from OS or apps. Then a month after I swapped, I used it again to "recycle" the old OS partition and extend my data partition to fill the HDD.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I will do the same like you. I just afraid it won't work because drivers or something else.
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I tried it and it was all right. Works well and speeds everything up.
