Upgrade to SSD

[Richard Shepherdson]

Looking to upgrade my HD to an SSD.

Paragon drive gets good reviews, any other advice or is the software bundled with Samsung drive more than adequate?

Do these softwares also allow you to migrate items after the event, planning on migrating OS and progs that load on boot, as well as office Firefox etc. But can I migrate further items at a later date should I wish?

Thanks for all advice.

 

[Fourstaff]

Looking to upgrade my HD to an SSD.

Paragon drive gets good reviews, any other advice or is the software bundled with Samsung drive more than adequate?

Do these softwares also allow you to migrate items after the event, planning on migrating OS and progs that load on boot, as well as office Firefox etc. But can I migrate further items at a later date should I wish?

Thanks for all advice.

Samsung has magician (I think you have to download from website). Its very good. Haven't had much time playing with it though. Not sure about Paragon

You can migrate everything in (cloning), there are many free tools which allow you to do that. However, migration is one shot: you have to migrate everything in at one go. There may be specialised tools for migrating little items, but I am not aware of any.

 

[Richard Shepherdson]

Thanks for that, I know that paragon allows migration of just the files and directories that you chose, allowing the rest to be left on the original drive.

Anyone else used these for moving some files rather than a straight clone of the whole drive?

 

[Fourstaff]

Thanks for that, I know that paragon allows migration of just the files and directories that you chose, allowing the rest to be left on the original drive.

Anyone else used these for moving some files rather than a straight clone of the whole drive?

Can you not copypaste? I think you should be able to copypaste most things, but it will take effort and time.

 

[Richard Shepherdson]

Can you not copypaste? I think you should be able to copypaste most things, but it will take effort and time.

Cant imagine cops paste working for system files and program files, all of which I guess would require registry entries modifying.

 

[brandonwh64]

I would just image your current drive and put it on the SSD. Copy/Paste will not get the MBR crap

 

[Richard Shepherdson]

Wanting to move some stuff from a nearly full 500gb to an 240-250 SSD, not all.

 

[Fourstaff]

Wanting to move some stuff from a nearly full 500gb to an 240-250 SSD, not all.

You will have to delete/uninstall most of the things.

I personally would do a fresh install, you have a clean slate for the SSD to function at its best.