Planning to set up Windows 10 on an SSD?
Planning to set up Windows 10 on an SSD?
Hello, I need to swap out the 5400RPM hard drive in your mom's all-in-one desktop. She’s very sensitive to anything out of place, so I’m looking for a way to install Windows 10 on an SSD you own and get it ready without disrupting her setup. Since she has multiple drives, I was thinking about removing one and replacing it with the SSD, then installing the OS. But this isn’t feasible because only one drive should be active during installation. Would it actually be possible to disconnect all drives and connect the SSD directly to a SATA port on the motherboard? If so, would there be any problems or changes when I restart the system afterward? Do you think this is the most effective approach?
Are you trying to clone original drive or do fresh install? For latter it's just best that you take that AIO for a day, install directly onto it, install all software, paste in some old settings and files. You can install Win10 on another PC and it should work fine when drive is moved to new PC. However, there's always possibility that drivers cause issues. Which means that no one can promise it will be smooth operation.
Yes, you can place both the old hard drive and the new SSD in your system and use Acronis True Image for cloning.
For cloning or migrating both drives need to be in same system. Doesn't matter where they are, you just can't be booted on the one being cloned. For cloning you need to have same or bigger drive than original. Otherwise its migrating where you leave out some files to fit just OS. I haven't done either for OS drive. With migrating there's always chance that something goes wrong while cloning should just work.