Bought a 'refurb' off Amazon.
Problem is whoever owned it before me completely messed up the HDD's.
The 128GB m.2 is completely unallocated and the 1TB HDD is partitioned into OS and Data (There is also a small Recovery and a small UEFI on the spindle drive)....so multiple partitions
What I want to do is make the m.2 primary (by cloning) for everything except Data. I'll allocate the 1TB spindle for data in Windows afterwards when everything is working (There is currently nothing on the 'Data' partition that needs saving). I have no idea if that 'Recovery' label currently actually has recovery files in it and don't trust that it does.
I have no idea how to clone a larger 1TB 'spindle HDD with multiple partitions onto a smaller SSD manually. The OS portion is smaller than the ssd and I'm thinking that's all I need (???) I always had the software that came with the SSD do it for me, so this is a first
Can anyone share any step by step advise? Or point me in the direction of the disk software I can use.? I am pretty sure I know how to access the BIOS and Windows disk management to at least make the ssd a master and the primary boot.
Thanks in advance.
Problem is whoever owned it before me completely messed up the HDD's.
The 128GB m.2 is completely unallocated and the 1TB HDD is partitioned into OS and Data (There is also a small Recovery and a small UEFI on the spindle drive)....so multiple partitions
What I want to do is make the m.2 primary (by cloning) for everything except Data. I'll allocate the 1TB spindle for data in Windows afterwards when everything is working (There is currently nothing on the 'Data' partition that needs saving). I have no idea if that 'Recovery' label currently actually has recovery files in it and don't trust that it does.
I have no idea how to clone a larger 1TB 'spindle HDD with multiple partitions onto a smaller SSD manually. The OS portion is smaller than the ssd and I'm thinking that's all I need (???) I always had the software that came with the SSD do it for me, so this is a first
Can anyone share any step by step advise? Or point me in the direction of the disk software I can use.? I am pretty sure I know how to access the BIOS and Windows disk management to at least make the ssd a master and the primary boot.
Thanks in advance.