![]() ![]() Only programs that are loaded onto the SSD will benefit from the speed and to be frank you'd be better off getting a bigger SSD drive that is the same size as your original drive Otherwise like my other system it be quick to boot up and benefit some tasks, but will be anchored by the HDD speed. That's why that machine is used primarily as a media centre! ![]() If the HDD fails I'm gonna have problems. The trouble with this is the speed of access and use of the programs are compromised by the HDD, even though the the OS is on the SSD. With my Samsung drive I have a secondary partition HDD which houses the documents and some software in secondary program files. ![]() Now to get over potential page file memory issues with games you may need need extra RAM. In stating that you can reduce the entire contents of the original drive including partitions to below 230GB by removing programs and documents etc and then using Macrium Reflect to drop each partition down and shrinking them to fit (not the recovery partition) as shown in the video. If you just try to swing the OS and recovery partitions and leave another partition in situ, then you have an error as the OS will expect to find the partition on the same drive and it on't be there. For instance the mapping will refer to disk 0 or 1 and the relevant partition. Furthermore there has to be a close parity to the original disk due to OS mapping of the drive and registry integrity. The problem with cloning the OS is that the partitions on the disk which it is stored has to be small enough to be shrunk and cloned onto the SSD with the original recovery partition. In relation to the 250GB SSD I have a setup using that as the primary drive with OS and recovery partitions on it so it will work, but there are limitations. I copied all partitions (including WIN 10 OS and recovery partitions) from a WD 1TB HDD to a Crucual MX500 1TB SSD and am using that cloned disk right now. So that in the event that the SSD starts to fail, or I get to a point where I feel like I just need to hit the reset button and start fresh with a clean install of Windows, everything important is already on a different drive and in the cloud.It is possible because I done it! I cloned the entire disk and I had issues which was resolved by going into safe mode and logging in then rebooting. I've personally been running on a dual drive setup for a long time now for the specific reason of not having to bother with cloning and whatnot since the only thing on the SSD for me is just the OS and main applications and all long term files and games go onto my HDD with only short term stuff that I'm messing with in the moment being on the SSD. ![]() So you should just probably wipe the ssd clean, then do the clone.Īnd free space shouldn't matter since that would just be free space either way no matte what on your storage. Me personally, I would just backup important files to cloud leaving all the stuff that can easily be redownloaded and installed again alone, then just doing a clean install on the SSD and reinstalling stuff.īut if you have games, a lot of them could have very different save file locations that you would have to track down. Can do a full backup and do a restore after a clean install on the SSD.īut otherwise a clone is by perfect definition a full on clone. ![]()
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