Fresh installation of original OS from HDD to SSD

[visruth]

Hi,


Not external hard drive. You should buy USB pendrive of at least 32gb for this.

No changes needed in BIOS. It's already in AHCI.


Regards

Visruth

[DJPillu]

Hello again , i am currently done with installing SSD and now going to migrate using the application you told me about , i also have some music and movies in c partition . I have now moved them to another partition. I have a doubt though , all other apps such as steam , chrome how will they work after their files are moved to SSD even though they were installed in the HDD initially . I am really confused right now.

[visruth]

Don't move applications. Only your personal data, music, video, documents.

Rest everything in C:\ only.

Move the C:\ along with other system partitions you see (it will not have any letter) to SSD. Don't migrate HP (OEM) recovery partition.

[DJPillu]

could you pls confirm again and tell me which ones to select for cloning (attaching a screen shot).I have applications(steam,chrome etc.) installed on the C partition.

[DJPillu]

I also wanted to tell you that when i was setting up the unallocated space from ssd , i didnt know which type of partition to have so i chose GUID Partition Table instead of MBR. If what i have done is wrong , what should i do now, reformat it?

[visruth]

It is GUID partition table we need.

1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th from left, we need to carry over.

[DJPillu]

when i selected 1st 2nd 3rd and 5th partitions and hit 'next' button, shows me the following error.(it isnt able to copy the 5th one)

[visruth]

Start again. The capacities are definitely not adding up.

http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx

[DJPillu]

it is not letting me clone only the 5th partition as when i deselected it, the macrium is allowing me to proceed further... What I think is i might have to manually increase the size partitions assigned to either No NameFAT32(LBA)Primary(260.0MB)  OR the unformatted memory(16MB) under the Cloned Partition Properties. Just saying because if it had to take the space it needs it could have taken from NTFS Primary directly but what i feel is the macrium application might have some default limit to partitions which we might have to manipulate?

[DJPillu]

I figured it out since the first 3 partitions had order priority over the 5th partition, all the memory space got assigned before hand itself as in while assigning the space for 3rd partition which originally was 623.77GB ,my SSD space was smaller than than HDD, so the remaining 231.66GB got assigned to 3rd partition. So i manually created another partition by reducing space from the main NTFS primary SSD which was enough to grab the 5th partition as well (attaching screenshot again for that xD) so my only concern is now should the size assigned be choked? As in 5th partition needed 526.7MB but allocated to that was 980.0MB so should i do the same or only assign 526.7MB exactly to fit it in order to save memory space?