I've been searching around for an answer to this question, but I just keep finding tutorials on both methods and no solid answer. I got a 256GB SSD for Christmas, and I want to install my OS and a few programs on it. It seems migrating is a lot easier and faster, but I wouldn't mind terribly going for a complete reinstall. My question is, are there any downsides at all to migrating rather than reinstalling? Is migrating the obvious solution?
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Migrating is likely to copy a load of old caches and temp files over as well.
If you want my opinion, I'd say install the OS new, install your old drive as a secondary then you can either:
A. Copy over old files that you wish to keep and do a fresh format on the drive
B. Delete files from the secondary drive you won't need anymore (eg. the windows directory and other trash that is no longer relevant)
By migration do you mean cloning, or doing a fresh install on the SSD regardless?
[QUOTE=Levelog;46824080]By migration do you mean cloning, or doing a fresh install on the SSD regardless?[/QUOTE]
Yes, I mean cloning, my bad.
[QUOTE=cdlink14;46824067]Migrating is likely to copy a load of old caches and temp files over as well.
If you want my opinion, I'd say install the OS new, install your old drive as a secondary then you can either:
A. Copy over old files that you wish to keep and do a fresh format on the drive
B. Delete files from the secondary drive you won't need anymore (eg. the windows directory and other trash that is no longer relevant)[/QUOTE]
Ah okay, so I can just install fresh on the SSD, load up windows, copy shit over, and wipe my HDD? Also, does the letter allocated to drives affect anything? Because I would still have the majority of programs on my HDD and use the SSD for the programs I use frequently.
all your programs would effectively be uninstalled if you were to fresh, and if you were to clone all your programs would be put on your SSD
(they'd exist on the hard drive, but no registry entry to make it show up in start menu,add remove programs, etc)
[QUOTE=~ZOMG;46824452]Yes, I mean cloning, my bad.
Ah okay, so I can just install fresh on the SSD, load up windows, copy shit over, and wipe my HDD? Also, does the letter allocated to drives affect anything? Because I would still have the majority of programs on my HDD and use the SSD for the programs I use frequently.[/QUOTE]
Drive letters are not stored on the Hard Drive itself they are stored with the Operating System, eg. If you installed an OS using the disk after POST it would create its own drive letters, however if you installed an OS from within another OS it would inherit the original OS's drive letters.
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