

Redeploy your HDD (reformat/re-partition etc.) and bring all you data files back to your HDDīTW I've had to do this kind of migration numerous times going back to the days of 386s with floppies and MFM drives (before IDE) and the days where you can just copy the DOS, WIN95, Windows directories, or linux root partitions etc. Now clone the HDD to SSD which should be a fully function OS system without all the "extras", a.k.a you filesģ. Move those Data files off the HDD first.Ģ.

Basically get a blank drive, thumbdrive, network share, whatever you can to store those file you do not want cloned to your SSD.

This is work that you've chosen to impose upon yourself and you need to do that ahead that of time. The hard part is that you want to "migrate" just your system OS and not all the files. A good tool like Acronis will make that pretty easy. The migration of your install from your HDD to SSD is a fairly straightforward clone operation.
