How to Move Windows 10 from HDD to SSD - Quick Tutorial 2024

In this video I show you how to move your windows installation from one drive to another, in this case, from a HDD to SSD. This will let you upgrade your hard drive to a solid state drive without having to reinstall Windows 10. Basically do a complete drive swap without any changes to your system!

This article from EaseUS will tell how to transfer Windows 10 from HDD to SSD without losing data. Hurry up and learn.

You can also use EaseUS Todo Backup software for the transfer process, link here:

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00:00 intro, beginners watch full tutorial instead in bio
00:21 installation of SSD (or HDD)'
03:01 SSD/HDD detected?
03:34 important preparations
06:17 moving windows to another drive
09:37 booting from your new fresh drive
11:30 check our SSD optimization video in bio for max performance
11:54 outro (watch the full tutorial instead if you have any questions)

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[flyingeekhoorn]

Thank you! This video was very clear, I can finally start up my pc without being able to have breakfast, go to the gym, go to church, and wake up from a nap. It boots so fast!

[WarMonkeyPlays]

I can't emphasize enough how helpful, thorough, and polished this video is. Just did my first system migration and it went _exactly_ as this did, no surprises.

[AlexSmith-dele]

Follow this step by step to migrate from a noisy and slow HDD and a SSD. Absolutely perfect, thank you. Results are great too

[GrizzlyClawss]

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[faeemi]

Great video! I'm awful with installing new hardware and setting it up, but this video really made everything clear, and now my boot time has gone from 5 minutes to 25 seconds haha. Getting an SSD was so worth it and you made the process so easy. Cheers man!

[michaelpaglicci]

This tutorial is magic! I went from a 2TB Toshiba HDD to a 1TB SSD and everything worked perfectly. I was under 1TB on the HDD so moving everything to the SSD went smoothly and as described in the video. I still have wiggle room on the SSD for additional games and plan to put some of my lesser used games on the HDD. Great video!

[Lowenmensch]

Thank you so much my friend, your tutorial really helped me upgrade my 2.5 inch SSD to NVME without reinstalling anything, so happy that I followed the steps and they work, liked and subscribed!!

[tom]

Thank you!! This process worked perfectly for my switch over to a Samsung SSD from my stock Acer HDD. The only thing I had to troubleshoot was that both disks were categorized as "Windows Boot Manager" within the Boot tab in BIOS. I was completely and utterly confused as to why the SSD wasn't showing up as a boot drive in BIOS. I have no idea why my Windows 10 OS categorized them as that, but it did. Once I figured out that although both disks were labeled the same, that they were different I switched the boot drive and everything has worked out.

Thanks for your help!

[andrehena]

For some reason I couldn't enter the BOOT, so I unpluged the SATA and the computer after many restarts and forces shutdowns magically found the M.2 SSD :D
Thanks for the video man, really awesome. I have a computer science dregree and I guess I know something about PCs, but after 5 hours trying different methods this tutorial saved me :D

[rotta]

First time I booted from an SSD successfully in my life. Huge thanks to you.

[KunouJS]

From a 2.5" 120GB SSD to an M.2 256GB SSD it took 17 minutes! It was incredibly simple to switch! It worked right away! Wish I had known about this program last year. Thanks, m'man!

[easternunit]

My grandma was so used to the slow HDD in her laptop, but then I just replaced it with an SSD and transferred everything from A to B, and she was surprised and shocked at how fast the response was. 😀😀😀

[ahmadhaziq]

at first, I was scared if I messed up at a certain point but this tutorial is so clear and it teaches you from a-z. 👍🏼

[devastator]

Awesome video! I only ran into one problem trying to defragment my HDD. My computer came with Intel Optane memory and it confused my computer into thinking I had a SSD so I could not defragment. After disabling Intel Optane everything worked. Thanks for the video!

[skaterman]

All worked well with no issues!! Thank you very much. My HHD was from now it’s fully up to modern times

[Trump-The-GREATEST]

If you have a smaller SSD that u want to clone to from a bigger size HDD then for it to work easily you first MUST "shrink size" ur C: drive partition to as much as you can using 'Disk Manager' and mostly D. Manager would choose the size automatically. Once shrunk the empty Unlocated space will be untouched, then you will be able to drag all partitions from the HDD to the smaller SSD in cloning process! Worked 100% for me.
Now onced the new SSD boots up and running fine, relaunch Disk Manager and now you will 'Expand' your Windows C: drive partition by selecting it & right clicking it. This process will just take a second and now the Unlocated space will merge into the C: drive as one & you will have use of ur whole drive's space like it was with the old hard drive!

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Navigation
00:00 intro, beginners watch full tutorial instead in bio
00:21 installation of SSD (or HDD)'
03:01 SSD/HDD detected?
03:34 important preparations
06:17 moving windows to another drive
09:37 booting from your new fresh drive
11:30 check our SSD optimization video in bio for max performance
11:54 outro (watch the full tutorial instead if you have any questions)

[NedofThor]

Excellent tutorial, everything worked as advertised for me. Had to look at the removed HDD to confirm it was indeed uninstalled after I booted, worked perfectly!

[zolr]

To everyone that gets a boot up error (error code: unable to locate winload.efi): remove all partitions from the current SSD that has all the cloned HDD data (basically like a factory reset) and redo the whole cloning process with Macrium Reflect as stated in this video. For some reason, during my cloning process it created a duplicate copy of the recovery and reserved system which caused them to clash with each other during boot and was what caused the winload.efi error. You can find out how to clear all partitions of a disk on YouTube as well as this guy's channel but a simple search should lead you to it.

Tldr; redo the whole process again after removing all cloned partitions.

[invaderzim]

Great tips, I had some issues going from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD that weren’t covered in this video but with a little searching around I fixed the issue and cloned flawlessly.