Copying OS to SSD

Personally I wouldn’t bother. If you have the licenses for any paid for software, start from scratch using the media creation tool.

Can’t link too it as I’m on my Chrome Book and the M$ site just redirects me a direct download.

Good info, will this work via Easeus master Partition Manager to copy a Win7 from spinner (1tb) to an SSD?

Bob, yes but you may have to shrink the partitions on the original to fit.

SSD purchase.

Decided upon 1 of 3, all 480 GB as this is the size that meets my requirements, I have a 1TB spinner which in all my years of building & using various PC’s, and accumulating stuff, has only used 120 GB, probably because I save to a 2TB NAS. I will be using more in the near future, but not much more than around 300Gb, although I want “headroom”. 480 GB should give me this. And a faster PC of course. I already have a 32GB Sandisk Cache drive*, will I still need that? The 3 drives considered:

SANDISK –      http://tinyurl.com/ycup8cjy

KINGSTON –       http://tinyurl.com/ybz5c4af

TOSHIBA –      http://tinyurl.com/y82yxh78

Any advice welcome and much appreciated, TY guys.

*As recommended a few years ago by Dave, still going strong and still doing its job day after day.

Thanks Dave. I am torn between the Sandisk (ebuyer £66.98, free delivery) and the Samsung (Overclockers at£68.99 + delivery) I have a home for the cache drive, No.2 gson will take it, has 3x (2TB) spinners, no SSD despite my encoragement.

Think it will be the Sandisk. Differences in read/write are not great enough to concern, both have limited 3 yr. Warranty.

Thanks for all the great advice you always give, much appreciated. Hope you’re feeling OK today.

Thanks again Dave, that is a good layout of what I need to do. OK to copy/paste that post?

Cheers, Bob.

With one of the machines I upgraded from spinning rust to an SSD I also had a ‘bit of a time of things’ I ended up starting off a USB formatting the SSD I think then ‘installing a system image I had prepared earlier onto the SSD. Windows 10 uses the original Windows 7 image creation package and appears quite useful.

I was wondering about doing the last machine in the house using a spinner. The micro server is feeling very slow and the other machines are hardly fire breathing monsters. Then I wondered if increasing the memory from the original 2 GB to perhaps 4 Gb there is not a huge difference in price between 2 GB and 4 GB ECC corrected memory and a jump from 2 GB to a total of 6 GB might be as useful as the change from spinner to SSD as a first step. On the other hand is it worthwhile messing with a working 5 year old system? The existing spinner is only a 250 GB item with a small OS partition, so a cheap SSD is possibly worth my interest. I just wonder if it is worth the effort or the cost and whether any benefit would really be felt.

Thank you Dave, I will have to plan that change for a quiet time as changing the drive is a little more of a task than simply powering the rig down and plugging in the new module.

I remember we did a lot of real world benchmarking back in the day of the old Forum with dual channel memory i.e. both modules the same. It made little difference apart from in the synthetic benchmarks.

My own laptop has 1 x 4GB and 1 x 8GB but it’s still dual channel

I think that’s a trick of the latest memory controllers.

What can screw thing up is mixing single sided and double sided, but that depends on how picky the motherboard is. I tend to go to the memory vendors website and see what they recommend.