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So i just bought a samsung 500gb ssd, and i completely dont feel like having to reinstall all my drivers , cd's, and OS. I have read that you can clone your HDD to your SDD. So the following questions would be appreciated if you had any input:

1.) Have you done it?

2.) Is it hard?

3.) Any advice , or am I wrong about the above procedure?

4.) Generic tips / and or input?

Edit: Forgot a huge question - Lets say I get it all perfectly installed or cloned. Can my old HDD just continue to be used ? or do i have to repartition it to not be a master slave drive anymore or something? Excuse me if I sound retarded im trying to get the peices together

Thank you all

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Gatorade

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Just now, CyanogenCX said:

You don't need to move everything, why not leave the stuff for which drive type doesn't really matter on your HDD?

You think the smartest thing would to just move like arma? I figured why not have the OS on it and I wasnt sure how it worked with putting the OS on the SSD , what happens to the old HDD

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CyanogenCX

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You think the smartest thing would to just move like arma? I figured why not have the OS on it

Move the OS for a lot faster boot times, move arma as well as any other games you want. The other random programs you were saying that you have for school etc. you can just leave on your old drive if it is too much effort to move them.

Edit: After you move the OS to your SSD you will have to go into your BIOS and in there change the boot order so it goes to SSD before HDD.

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Gatorade

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Just now, CyanogenCX said:

Move the OS for a lot faster boot times, move arma as well as any other games you want. The other random programs you were saying that you have for school etc. you can just leave on your old drive if it is too much effort to move them.

Do i need to like do anything special to the old HDD or just set my SSD as the primary boot device?

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Just now, Sugarfoot said:

Do i need to like do anything special to the old HDD or just set my SSD as the primary boot device?

Just set it as primary and you should be fine. However, recently I added an old HDD I had lying around to my computer which had an old version of windows in it, and when I boot it up it asks me if I want to go into configuration utility or something. I usually just ignore that message as it only lasts for 2-3 seconds. I'm not sure if that is because of windows or something else, but it is a small price to pay.

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Just now, CyanogenCX said:

Just set it as primary and you should be fine. However, recently I added an old HDD I had lying around to my computer which had an old version of windows in it, and when I boot it up it asks me if I want to go into configuration utility or something. I usually just ignore that message as it only lasts for 2-3 seconds. I'm not sure if that is because of windows or something else, but it is a small price to pay.

I mean thats no biggie, i have a fake windows so it takes a solid 10 minutes to start up anyways. I was only buying the SSD because of the super shaky frames I get. I get good frames

but my HDD is old as balls and it clearly cant handle loading the map

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Just now, Sugarfoot said:

I bought samsung 500gb SSD.

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1455153001&sr=1-2&keywords=ssd

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html download Samsung Data Migration Software and it would guide you true the prosses

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Just now, Sugarfoot said:

Think its something that could be nice and easy to swap over? Have you done it your self?

did it 1 year ago all i needet to do is set the HDD i wanted the files come from the the drive i wanted to boot my pc on. after that i went to the BIOS and changed Boot device

Edit: done it twize. once with a Intel ssd and once with a Samsung ssd

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did it 1 year ago all i needet to do is set the HDD i wanted the files come from the the drive i wanted to boot my pc on. after that i went to the BIOS and changed Boot device

Edit: done it twize. once with a Intel ssd and once with a Samsung ssd

Sweet and the OS / Drivers copied over and worked correctly?

Follow up question would be do You also just copy over the entire steam folder / and or documents to properly copy arma

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Follow up question would be do You also just copy over the entire steam folder / and or documents to properly copy arma

If everything was saved on that hhd it will me moved over to the ssd. so you would need to change the download location on steam downloads. was really easy. found the place my arma was downloadet afterwards and just pressed download on steam and chouse the folder that its already been downloadet at. then it will say finding exsisting files and you're good then

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2 minutes ago, Norwegianviking said:

If everything was saved on that hhd it will me moved over to the ssd. so you would need to change the download location on steam downloads. was really easy. found the place my arma was downloadet afterwards and just pressed download on steam and chouse the folder that its already been downloadet at. then it will say finding exsisting files and you're good then

sweet! im super excited thank you for your time and everyone else!

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You shouldn't clone a HDD to an SSD unless you know that the partition alignment is done properly on the HDD.  When in doubt, reinstall the OS onto the SSD.  

Keep the HDD, and once you have installed the OS and your base drivers you can move things over like all of your games.  If you move the steam folder into the correct location on the SSD, you can then just have steam find the games and save the time of downloading them again.  

After you've gotten everything in place, I would format the old HDD and then continue to use it as a storage drive - but maybe that's just me... ;)

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6 minutes ago, bamf said:

You shouldn't clone a HDD to an SSD unless you know that the partition alignment is done properly on the HDD.  When in doubt, reinstall the OS onto the SSD.  

Keep the HDD, and once you have installed the OS and your base drivers you can move things over like all of your games.  If you move the steam folder into the correct location on the SSD, you can then just have steam find the games and save the time of downloading them again.  

After you've gotten everything in place, I would format the old HDD and then continue to use it as a storage drive - but maybe that's just me... ;)

Steam actually has an easy guide for transferring your games:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

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11 minutes ago, bamf said:

You shouldn't clone a HDD to an SSD unless you know that the partition alignment is done properly on the HDD.  When in doubt, reinstall the OS onto the SSD.  

Keep the HDD, and once you have installed the OS and your base drivers you can move things over like all of your games.  If you move the steam folder into the correct location on the SSD, you can then just have steam find the games and save the time of downloading them again.  

After you've gotten everything in place, I would format the old HDD and then continue to use it as a storage drive - but maybe that's just me... ;)

Yeah i thought i had to reformat the old HDD but i wasnt sure. Good to know ,

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1 hour ago, bamf said:

It is easy, but again unless it's SSD to SSD I would be somewhat wary.  It's all about the partition alignment with an SSD - if it's wrong, you kill your performance.  This first random Google link talks about the alignment a touch.  

You could always clone it and then check it out, if it's wrong you would want to secure erase the SSD and then re-install.  

This.

Regardless, if your performance is off a bit on the SSD because of the process, it will still perform better than your HDD ever did.

 

GL 

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Professor Pericles

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On February 11, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Norwegianviking said:

What ssd brand did you buy? and cloning a ssd is not a problem

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/downloads.html

Everything he said. I cloned my old boot drive to be my new ssd, using samsungs software that you can use with their hardware, easy , nothing lost. 

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Jaylen Sarrett

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OS on SSD < Games on SSD

Don't use both SSD and HDD for the game/OS 

imo, fuck fast boot times, i use my pc for 3 things like any real gamer....

tranny porn, trolling and gaming. 

if you want your games to run smooth FPS and have no trouble at all loading mission files and other things asylum requires, put arma and whatever other games on that bitch and deal with a little longer wait to game/wank

 

 

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1 hour ago, Jaylen Sarrett said:

OS on SSD < Games on SSD

Don't use both SSD and HDD for the game/OS 

imo, fuck fast boot times, i use my pc for 3 things like any real gamer....

tranny porn, trolling and gaming. 

if you want your games to run smooth FPS and have no trouble at all loading mission files and other things asylum requires, put arma and whatever other games on that bitch and deal with a little longer wait to game/wank

 

 

this is what i was thinking when my ssd comes in, id rather just keep my os on the hdds i have partitioned rather than have to fresh install it all.

transferring game files seems less of a hassle than having to reinstall everything imo

p.s. i dont trust cloning but thats just me

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3 minutes ago, Donk said:

this is what i was thinking when my ssd comes in, id rather just keep my os on the hdds i have partitioned rather than have to fresh install it all.

transferring game files seems less of a hassle than having to reinstall everything imo

p.s. i dont trust cloning but thats just me

if you're gonna do the latter though,

definitely go with the full reinstall

not cloning, it just generally is less buggy and works better.

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Just now, Jaylen Sarrett said:

if you're gonna do the latter though,

definitely go with the full reinstall

not cloning, it just generally is less buggy and works better.

i probably will reinstall everything because i ordered almost all new parts minus power supply, gpu, and hdds. not to mention im going from amd to intel, so my already installed drivers and i dont remember how my setup boots atm(IDE or AHCI).

yay i cant wait to reinstall everything

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