New harddrive

[Venari]

Thanks Minden, I'll check out that Site.

So far all I've done was clean my drive of trash files and then defragmented it. Minecraft keeps butting in on the process, so I haven't gotten around to migrating yet...

 

[Venari]

In the middle of cloning the OS to the SSD. Man this takes some time its been going since this morning. But its now at 91%, so hopefully just a couple hours left.

EDIT:

Apparently I cloned the wrong partition of the wrong drive...all I did was copy all of my movies over to the SSD. Guess I'll just go back to some games and restart this process overnight, making sure I get the right selections this time.

 

[Venari]

I am, looking for the name of the free software I used to migrate from HDD to SSD. It was a little slow, but it worked flawlessly.

EaseUS TODO Backup and EaseUS Partition.

This is the program I used, and it looks like it worked.

However, now there is 1.6 TB of "unallocated" space on the drive that I can't seem to merge with the rest (2.04 TB) of the drive.

EDIT: Just realized this drive is in MBR. Is it possible to have windows installed on it as a GPT?

 

[Homercidal]

This is the program I used, and it looks like it worked.

However, now there is 1.6 TB of "unallocated" space on the drive that I can't seem to merge with the rest (2.04 TB) of the drive.

EDIT: Just realized this drive is in MBR. Is it possible to have windows installed on it as a GPT?

I believe so. I think you can actually change types in Windows and then allocate the extra space.

 

[Venari]

My motherboard doesn't support a switch to GPT, so I'll have to make do until I can upgrade.

It has been two weeks and this drive seems to run my OS with no problems.

Thanks everybody for your help

 

[MindenMan]

I too have a larger than desired "un-allocated space on my SDD, and when all my other projects are caught up, I will reformat the drive and get my space back. Right now, the speed is first rate and that is why I went SSD.