@@hogg1media627 you should if you want the ssd to be the drive that boots up the Operating system, or you can just clone your old drive into your new ssd that way you can still keep all your files into your new hard drive
hey i had a question. so this video is talking about making the ssd a boot drive but when you installed your ssd did you have to clone your windows to transfer your data or no???
+Slick Reed Although i figured out all this rebuilding an old PC someone gave me , This is the simplest way i have heard it all explained so i am going to give it a like anyway. SSD's are just so great , i run a separate one for operating system and another for main games i wish to play then use another 3TB HDD for other games as well as a 3TB usb 3.0 to back up the system. Sounds like overkill but it allows me to run the latest Windows 10 previews without losing any data if anything goes wrong.
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I read through a few of the reply's here and I have to say I'm disappointed to see so much bickering. Some folks use this format to learn something. Just a few straight answers are all most folks want, not to get into and argument or be called stupid for not knowing as much as the next guy. After all, the only stupid question, is the one that's not asked....
Again.... What if the old HDD is full of data. Its all very well making a tutorial with nice clean new disc's but that's not a real world scenario. 99 times out of 100 people will be upgrading from an older HDD to a nice new SSD where they want to keep all their old data but use the new SSD as the boot disc, only for the OS. Can anyone help? literally no one has made an instructional video of forum post covering this topic in a credible manner.
I happened to disconnect my HDD (which had everything installed into it) to allow my new SSD to install windows without any hassle. Turned pc off, plugged the HDD back in, voila, hope it works.
Back when Linus was just a humble employee. Bet he'd never have dreamt that he'd go on to be a multimillionaire with the biggest name in the tech space.
No I bought a hdd for my first build and didn’t think anything of pairing it with an ssd. Boot times and launch speeds aren’t terrible but from what I can gather they will be MUCH bette
just wondering, even if i have already got my operating system and all my other files on my current hdd, if i setup an ssd and hdd system like this will it start booting my os from the ssd or do i have to place it onto the ssd and manually place whatever current files i have on my hdd that i want on my ssd to my ssd
If you hook up an SSD, just go into the BIOS settings and put it at the top of your boot sequence. Once you have your OS installed, you'll boot off of your SSD instead of your normal HDD. Your old hard drive will just be a drive letter, and your programs will have to be reinstalled on the new SSD, however the program files from your HDD will still be available. All the data (pictures, music, videos etc. will also be located on your old HDD.
can someone help me, please? I've installed windows 10 on a dynamic drive (2 SSD's 250GB Samsung). For some reason, it's not booting from the SSD, any recommendations?
You don't really have to mess around boot order in bios. every motherboard has SATA plugs for first and second boot. SATA 0 indicated on a motherboard is the first boot. SATA 1 is for the second boot. All you have to do is to figure out which one goes in for which drive. it reduces the complication.
Nick Pevey Once you have installed the Nintendo 64 on your TV's floppy drive, you have to plug the SSD into the N64 videogames slot. It's suprisingly easy. Make sure you have a separate power supply to power the video game controller though.
^ Or better yet, that plastic piece in front you have no idea what it’s for, you put it there so you can play the games instead of storing them to the SSD! :)
i really like this guy i find him sort of easy enough to follow and i have hard times with learning disabilities... this guy is awesome i like that his clear and speaks clear as well so that helps to follow him... thank you Tech tips guy pitty i didnt catch his name
Thank youuu !! this vdeo helped me so mush ! i bought a SSD and i wanted to use this SSD ONLY for my OS , and i dont knew how to do that ! now i know !
You'd have to a fresh install of Windows to your SSD. Transferring it can be very hard and may risk corrupting files. Plus it wont get the full affect of the SSD as it would being a fresh install.
Perhaps your SSD came with a disk that'll allow you to transfer Windows and/or even files over. If not, you can buy software that'll allow you to do such a thing. Even then, I still highly recommend just doing a fresh restore for many different reasons. Some being the reasons I stated in my last comment.
Your version of Windows should work, yes. Just as long as you use the same disk as the one you used to install your current copy. Wasn't 100% on what you ment by "Also will my same windows 8.1 work or no?". I apologize if that wasn't an answer to it.
heres what i did, with absolutely no experience at this whatsoever: copy OS from HDD to ssd (DiskWizard or many free programs can do this for you, and will actually kinda hold your hand thru it if youre a noob), done. instead of going in and confusing people in your video with programs they dont understand like you did, after i copied OS to ssd, i turned off pc and unplugged the hdd from the motherboard that was the original boot up system, but left the ssd plugged in. started it up, ssd booted up my OS and assigned itself as c drive. turned it off again, plugged back in the hdd storage, booted it up, ssd is still drive c, hdd storage is drive d, done.
WetDogBed thanks for this. so I could essentially just format my current HDD and copy my OS to SSD and that would be similar to a fresh install? Or would I need to buy another copy of Windows 7?
it will be exactly how it was on your old hdd, albeit faster. not exactly like a fresh install, more like taking your brain out of your body and putting it in a hunky beach weightlifter body. lol. give it a day or so to get settled and used to how you do things, much like any new pc.
The only problem with having a separate HDD for storage is that it takes a second or so to access as it's always sitting idle. This can be a little frustrating when accessing many folder locations quickly.
+Zach Kokiri Welcome to years of frustration and fun all rolled into one. Something just never feels right for me when i plug in a console game and it just works lol. I always end up having more fun mucking about with PC's.
I found that it is a similar process. Right click on the windows icon to see the management options such as disk management and computer management. To move files such as music you right click and select properties then to location in the properties panel at the top, from here you can move it to your other drive.
So when you add simple volume it initializes the ssd, not formatting or wiping the whole drive just initialize, correct? I need my old rig 2.5 SSD drive in the new build.
This helped me so much. I installed an SSD and had an issue getting it to migrate and all the forums were telling me to download all these drivers and rollback. This was to the point and exactly what I needed.
This was a life saver! I just did my first build and couldn't figure out why I could only store to my SSD. I'm a visual learner so this was super helpful. :)
hello in boot priority i only have my hard drive showing. I rebuilt this computer only updating the battery and GPU. All my other parts are the same and the previous computer booted normally? I have no other options to boot with, ive tried everything :(
3:42 If I wanted to keep the files and data of my HD I would have to click on "Do not format this volume"? I have an extra HD and it's half full with important files and I don't want to lose them
Can I get windows on a SSD without losing all my information on my HDD? I just wanna transfer my games from my HDD to my SSD without losing info also. Im new that this and I don't know much about this stuff, though I do know a bit with these videos. Can someone help me please?
@@tggt00 got a sata one because I'm on a budget. The only m.2s that match says SSDs in price are m.2 sata SSDs so it isn't a big difference. I also got a 2 tb HDD for my games
you can get the 970 evo m.2 ssd 500gb for 80 dollars right now, or a 250 gb for 50-60 dollars, pretty cheap if you ask me. sata ones are just 10-20 dollars cheaper
Just built my first computer thanks to Linus and I needed to set up my HDD for storage and this video helped me do that! Settings a little different but the overall picture is the same! Thanks again Linus!
@@RoastMasterUK am planning on buying an M.2 SSD for my laptop with 1TB HDD... Will the M.2 speed up boot ups even if the games/apps are installed in the HDD?
I bought a Samsung NVME Pro 980 m.2 ssd and my current gaming PC has a 512 gb ssd already install and i only have one slot so i installed a 500GB HDD as a back up drive is there a way to clone my OS to my HDD then change the bios to run that first so i can installed my new SSD drive and format it and then clone it to run my windows 11 to it
I preffer to move the personal folders to the Storage drive, much easier and faster! :P Then all downloads, documments, music, etc. will point automatically to the Storage drive folders :P
+Miguel Angel MG in windows 10 it is even easier, you can go to settings and set your videos, documents, pictures etc. to another (in my case D:) drive
***** Easier than Drag and Drop?... :P LOL Since Vista you can Drag And Drop, in XP you can go to Properties - Location and select the folder you want to! :P
I'm in same boat. I just want to see what is on my old disk from old computer first. (Not showing as a folder, but in Disk Management). Not vibrating when I put hand on it. Not sure how to kick-start its heart.
@@WindIsCalm Depends for what you do, you cant beat the build quality of a MacBook Pro and it's great for editing and compute tasks and windows is always the go to for gaming
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Just wanted to let you know that you have made my build experience less stressful and much more straight forward and I appreciate it all, thanks and merry christmas!
Yep! Normally, I just have everything (OS and programs) on the C:// drive and then use the other hard drive for personal data storage. However, I am getting ready to build my first rig and this time around I want a OS boot drive and then programs on another drive and then personal data on a 3rd drive, so this video came in very handy for me.
My DELL EUFI/BIOS does not allow changes to boot priority order. It automatically favours the SATA SDD drive over the m.2 as per the tech spec. The M.2 is nearly twice as fast as the SATA drive so the OS sits on that and boot initially looks at the SATA drive for an OS then goes on to the M.2. I'm not sure if the pointless look at the sata for an OS will take longer as that drive fills up?
i was able to make the ssd to show up in "my computer". however, i cant seem to find it in the bios so i'm not able to change its position with my hdd.
+zeki yildirim download the bios from your motherboard's manufacture website then install and lastly press f2 or delete once your computer restarts. Hope this helps.😀
+zeki yildirim i think that you just missed the location at your bios settings. I missed it once, but its there just look something like ´´Boot priority´´ hopefully you find it :)
The latter part of this video is bad practice for managing libraries (Windows 7/8/10). Instead of creating a new folder on your drive, right-click My Documents/My Music/My Pictures and click Properties. Go to Location. Set your location from C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents to D:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents. It will ask you if you want to move your files, say yes. The one tricky folder is the Desktop. You have to kill Windows Explorer but open an explorer window in another process to move it.
Since Firefox and Chrome save to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data respectively, I would move those folders to your HDD (unless it's a WD Green or similar drive with very poor performance), and create symlinks for them. Then I would set up a backup script to back up those folders to the SDD on a weekly basis (this is my script): gist.github.com/NobleUplift/c7ae8a18eba6406e0df4 If it's only temp files that you're worried about, Firefox caches to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox and you could symlink that, but keeping the cache on the SSD is good for performance.
***** For the use case you're looking at (having to move/install folders to the D drive only once), it is the easiest solution, but that solution also comes with caveats. As I've mentioned, one of the greatest benefits of having an SSD is the paging and caching since it's instantaneous read. Having the %TMP% folder, which is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp if I'm not mistaken, on the HDD will slow down your system. By how much, I cannot say. The same goes for the caching folders of other apps.
This comment seems popular so I have a question regarding boot drives and that. Here is the question. My build has that I'm going to build has two drives (one an SSD for boot drive and some games and a HDD for everything else) would it be easier if I install the SSD as a boot drive and set it up, then install the HDD for everything else?
+Professor RU-vid Won't matter one way or the other. If you have both your SSD and HDD in when you install your OS, just make sure not to accidentally select your HDD. Now if you have data already on your HDD, there's no harm in keeping it unplugged while you install your OS. Ideally, your boot media should have no important data on it (so that if your OS fails your data is fine) and your data disk should be in a RAID 1 array (WD Reds are best for this). I had a RAID 1 array using WD Greens (I know, I was young and stupid) and one of those disks failed. Even though I do back up, I would have had to reinstall all my games, programs, etc. Love RAID.
+Patrick Seiter sorry to seem like such a noob but how do you set up a raid? Also in the bios how do I set up windows and set the boot priority to the SSD (sorry if I said that horribly wrong). I know these are pretty nooby questions but I'm trying to know everything before building my PC
This video was extremely helpful. I bought a 1T HDD and install it on my computer to my surprise nothing happened, then I figured there is a trick to it. So I went on youtube and landed on your video, it's exactly what I needed to do. Thank you so much!!!
