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Cross-posting from the Windows 10 thread: Is there a recommended procedure for migrating Windows to a new SSD from an older HD? I've got a 2 TB WD hard drive, and just bought a 525 GB Crucial MX 300. My current partition has about 1TB of crap on it, so I don't think I can just mirror it over. Do I create a recovery drive & then reinstall from that? Do I use the recovery drive to do a clean install (and cry when I try and find my MS Office CD keys and have to reinstall all my other poo poo?)?
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Nov 26, 2016 23:52
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BIG HEADLINE posted:In regards to product keys, you don't need to go paper-spelunking, just use this: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/produkey.html Thanks. I'm sad that I actually need to trim all this poo poo down to a reasonable amount of space. But I guess that will help because when I reinstall I can try to use that Steam file manager thing to store games on different drives.
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Nov 27, 2016 00:49
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Goddamnit. Am I completely hosed, or can I fix this? I bought the Crucial MX300. Apparently I bought the laptop version. I have a desktop, with full cages for regular sized desktop hard drives. So the tiny SSD doesn't snap in to my removable hard drive trays. Can I just plug the SSD into my SATA system and have it work while I order some plastic spacer bullshit that will fill the empty space? Or do I need to get a whole new drive? Quickedit: For reference, I bought this drive. I figured since it was SATA I was okay. But I'm Bad At Computers (TM).
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Nov 27, 2016 01:43
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Phew! Now I just need to find a spare SATA cable from back when I built this thing, and figure out how to rewire the power cables coming out of my PSU. Thanks for holding my hand, all.
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Nov 27, 2016 01:50
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Aaaand now when I look for the drive in "This PC" it doesn't show up. But it does show up in Device Manager. I'll try downloading & setting up the linked software and hoping that it's a formatting/drivers thing. Grumble grumble.
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Nov 27, 2016 03:31
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:You need to format it and create a partition. Thanks. EDIT THE NEXT: So I finished cloning my old drive, rebooted, hit backspace to get into my BIOS, selected the SSD as my boot drive, and then when it booted into windows, my computer is flipping out. Instead of the normal login screen (whatever silly picture Windows 10 gives you, then you hit enter & can type your password), I got a blue screen with the time on it, which flickered to black every few seconds (2 seconds of blue screen with time displayed, followed by a second of black). The mouse cursor was visible, with the spinning blue "waiting" circle intermittently on and off. After 45s of that, the screen has settled to full black with only the mouse cursor displayed, and I can't get past that to a proper login screen. It's done that both times I've rebooted and tried to boot off the SSD. I am currently trying to boot off the old HDD. Any thoughts or advice? YET ANOTHER EDIT: So I've cloned the drive again, and this time after it shut off I just disconnected the old HDD and booted the computer. Everything booted properly and things seem to be working so far. I assume at this point I simply turn the computer off, connect the HDD, boot normally, and then wipe/format the old HDD, and I should be good to go? Thanks again for the help, everyone. Arcturas fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Nov 27, 2016 |
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Nov 27, 2016 04:44
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Hey all, I can take this to the tech support subforum if it's more appropriate, but I am having a problem with cloning my drive & migrating to an SSD and you were tremendously helpful this weekend as I tried to do that. Now that I've switched to an SSD (Crucial MX300, 525 GB), I am getting intermittent freezes & crashes. Typically what will happen is one of my tabs will decide it doesn't want to load or refresh properly, and it'll hang, as will all my other tabs (spinning circle, "Waiting for Cache", the Google Play Music stream will stop, etc). Likewise, other apps will also lose connectivity (I'm trying to reinstall League because every time I boot League after switching to the SSD it also crashes rather than playing the game). I have a vague suspicion this is because Acronis didn't properly copy over the right permisisons settings when I cloned the drive? I told Acronis to simply "Clone Disk," which I hear should have worked. The main reason I suspect permissions is that when I opened Event Viewer and looked at the last errors before the crash, it's Event 10016. Some quick googling told me that I needed to Regedit full permissions for the linked CLID and APPID entries in the registry, and allow full control to the relevant Com+ entries in Computer Services. So I did that, but a few minutes ago I got another similar crash and I am not sure what to troubleshoot next. Any advice?
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