Need to migrate Windows 10 installation to new SSD , it's a mess.

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  1. Posts : 42,734
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       #11

    Yes, I agree.. hadn't thought that point through- not one I've encountered.
    Noted 2 drives make reference to a page file...
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  2. Posts : 5,478
    2004
       #12

    Teccmo said:
    To add to the mess, My AsRock mobo has a UEFI bios, so there's a conflict there if I try to clone the drive to the new ssd.
    You aren't booting UEFI though - if you were you would have a EFI System Partition which MUST be formatted FAT. You don't have such a partition so you must be booting in CSM (BIOS) mode.

    You can use EasyBCD (free just need to register) to move the boot files from D to C. Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD - Windows 7 Help Forums

    Then create image of C and restore it to new SSD. It doesn't matter if SSD is smaller as long as what you want to restore will fit (which it will as C is only 168GB used). Don't clone it as it wouldn't fit.

    Or are you saying you want to start using UEFI for your boot drive?
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  3. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #13

    Disable the pagefile on drive d:. You disable the pagefile on Drive D: under System Settings, then Advanced System Settings, click the Settings button under Performance, then the Advanced Tab, then click the Change button under Virtual Memory.

    Then do as Dalchina suggested in post #2. Do a new clean install to the new SSD. Then copy over only the existing C: drive partition on disk 1 (Original C) to replace the new C: drive on the SSD, shrinking the partition to fit on the SSD in the process. Do a boot repair and that's it.

    Or before you copy Original C: to the SSD, you can use a program like MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to shrink it, then copy it over.

    This is how it works:
    Doing a new, clean install to the blank new SSD will set it up as boot drive matching the current install requirements of the PC, UEFI or Legacy (MBR). Then you replace the new clean installed Windows 10 with the original installation of Windows 10 by copying over only the Original C partition. Then the boot repair points the newly created boot files on the new SSD to the copied Original C partition.
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  4. Posts : 4,511
    several
       #14

    You could make your Disk1 Original C: both system and boot. It has 168gb used space , so you could then migrate that to the OCZ.

    elevated command:
    diskpart
    sel vol c
    act
    sel vol d
    inact
    exi
    bcdboot c:\windows /s c:


    Then reboot the pc.
    Last edited by SIW2; 15 Jul 2018 at 12:50.
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  5. Posts : 4,511
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       #15

    My AsRock mobo has a UEFI bios, so there's a conflict there if I try to clone the drive to the new ssd.
    Why is that a conflict? You are currently using bios boot. There is no reason why an ssd should make any difference.

    You should be able to clone mbr>mbr. That should be straightforward.

    Or, if you prefer, you can clone mbr>gpt, then change the bios settings to use efi. boot.
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  6. Posts : 1,099
    Win 10 pro Upgraded from 8.1
       #16

    I think dalchina procedure will work. We have been converting MBR C: partition like this for awhile. Well worth a try if the OP can grasp the operation as once he has an image of C: then creating a clean install on the SSD will create all the partitions need to boot. Then restoring the C: Image in the location of the new C: is should work worst case he may have to use MR Repair boot feature.
    I think is well worth a try before just clean installing and losing his data and programs?
    The OP will have to disconnect all other drives to create the clean install and restore his c: Image then get it booting, and the rest as dalchina detailed
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  7. Posts : 13
    Windows 10 Ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #17

    (@Cerebus) Maaan... I really, really want to avoid reinstalling everything with a clean win 10 install if that's possible. It looks like that's not possible from what you're saying, but the whole point of the ssd is to have win 10 running much faster.. at least in theory right? I have a ton of important personal documents and pictures, that type of stuff, so I have to figure out a way to back that all up... and then terabytes worth of installed programs as you can see..and said. This was the free upgrade from Win 7 a couple years ago, On drive C:. then I think I tried to migrate the OS when I got the firecuda..and now i have this mess.
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  8. Posts : 13
    Windows 10 Ultimate 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #18

    lx07 said:
    You aren't booting UEFI though - if you were you would have a EFI System Partition which MUST be formatted FAT. You don't have such a partition so you must be booting in CSM (BIOS) mode.

    You can use EasyBCD (free just need to register) to move the boot files from D to C. Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD - Windows 7 Help Forums

    Then create image of C and restore it to new SSD. It doesn't matter if SSD is smaller as long as what you want to restore will fit (which it will as C is only 168GB used). Don't clone it as it wouldn't fit.

    Or are you saying you want to start using UEFI for your boot drive?
    Didn't see the 2nd page yet today, thank you guys for your replies..

    I don't need to use UEFI to boot, no. But when I shrunk the partition on C:, and was going to migrate the OS in USEase Partion Master (the 168 gigs like you said) it says I can move it to a drive with an EFI partition...and can't continue. I don't really understand what that means.
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  9. Posts : 41,412
    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
       #19

    Please update the progress with the steps in post #6.
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  10. Posts : 5,286
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #20

    When you are trying to accomplish a task like installing or cloning OS windows, by experience, the first thing you need to do is to disconnect all drives except the OS drives that you want to work on. In this case, the original drive where you have the OS running and the SSD where you want to clone it. Otherwise, the process will get all confused and mess up all the system folders because it is detecting too many drives.
    I have the same messy drive configuration like you and even have both GPT disk (my day to day OS) and MBR disk (Windows Insider OS) in use. The key is to simplify your drive configuration before doing upgrades or installation. It's a lot easier that way than trying to sort it out when the problem takes over.

    This is mine:

    Need to migrate Windows 10 installation to new SSD , it's a mess.-image.png
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