{"id":1913,"date":"2020-06-22T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2020-06-22T22:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:56:50","slug":"ssd-upgrade-is-it-worth-the-hassle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2020\/06\/ssd-upgrade-is-it-worth-the-hassle\/","title":{"rendered":"SSD Upgrade &#8211; Is It Worth the Hassle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a new larger SSD a while ago and finally got around to replacing my Win10 system drive this past weekend. I started by making a clone of my c: drive using DriveImageXML which works really well. However, when I went to replace my old SSD with the new one, I realized that the system reserved partition hadn&#8217;t been cloned along with the data. After attempting to switch the new drive out with the old and fiddling with the BIOS boot options, I realized it wasn&#8217;t going to work so I started doing some research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I replaced the old drive and made a system restore disk to hopefully allow me to run diskpart and bootrec commands to get the new drive to be bootable. The disk worked well but I was never successfully able to get it to boot from the new drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I almost paid $60 for <strong>MiniTool Partition Wizard<\/strong> before downloading the free home version of <strong>Macrium Reflect<\/strong> which allows you to close the whole disk to another drive. After downloading, installing and registering, I kicked off the clone operation that took about 90 miniutes or so to complete. The new SSD looked just like the old drive (same partition sizes, etc) so I used <strong>MiniTool <\/strong>to change the partition sizes and delete some unneeded ones. I shutdown, swapped out the old drive for the new one and booted up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was happy when I saw the windows logo and heard the startup sound! Things are working great now and I have enough room to install some games as well. What to do with that 256GB SSD now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new larger SSD a while ago and finally got around to replacing my Win10 system drive this past weekend. I started by making a clone of my c: drive using DriveImageXML which works really well. However, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2020\/06\/ssd-upgrade-is-it-worth-the-hassle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about_me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}