Re: I am planning to change from a 500 GB HDD to a 500 GB SSD but IDK how to do it. Can someonr tell me how or send me a tutorial? Use Macrium Reflect—it's a free drive-cloning tool that works with any brand of hard drive and SSD. Just download the installer for the free home version and run through the wizard to get it up and running on your PC. Before you start messing with drives and formatting partitions, it's absolutely necessary to back up your data first. [IMAGE] Plug your SSD into your computer. If it's a brand-new drive, you probably won't see the drive pop up in File Explorer, but don't worry; it just needs to be initialized first. Open the Start menu and type "partitions" in the search box. Click the Create and format hard disk partitions option, and Disk Management will open. It will prompt you to initialize the drive using GPT partition table, since you have a modern PC with a UEFI firmware. Once the drive has been initialized, you should see the drive show up in the bottom pane of Disk Management as unallocated space. From there, you should be good to go.[IMAGE] Open Macrium Reflect and you should see a list of drives in the main window. Find your current drive—it'll list your C: partition with a Windows logo—and select it. Click the Clone This Disk button that appears below that drive to start the cloning wizard.[IMAGE] This will bring up a new window where you will choose your destination drive—in this case, your empty SSD. If your SSD is the same size as your old drive, make sure the box all the way to the left of your source disk is checked, as shown above, then click Select a Disk to Clone. Choose your SSD from the drop-down list, and click Next.[IMAGE] Click Next and you'll be asked if you want to save this backup schedule. You can uncheck that box and click OK to run the backup now, one time. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on how large the disks are. When it’s done, you can exit Macrium Reflect. You should see your new SSD in File Explorer, complete with all your data. you'll need to tell your computer to boot from it. Restart your computer and enter its BIOS/UEFI setup From there, look for your BIOS's boot options. select the option to change the boot sequence. Choose your SSD from the list as the first boot drive, then head back to the BIOS's main menu to exit, saving your settings. Your computer will reboot, and if all went well, it should plop you back into Windows faster than ever before. Open File Explorer and check to confirm that your SSD is, in fact, the C: drive. If everything looks good, you're ready to rock. If your old drive is still installed, you can erase it and use it to store extra files.
I am planning to change from a 500 GB HDD to a 500 GB SSD but IDK how to do it. Can someonr tell me how or send me a tutorial?
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