How to Upgrade HDD To SSD Without Reinstalling Windows for Free

today I will tell you and show you how to upgrade HDD to SSD drive without reinstalling Windows quite interesting yep and you know what it is completely free because we're going to use open source software this genius in order to get started you need to have a SATA adapter linked to buy one I will leave in the video description to be honest all the process is very easy you just need to repeat after me so let's get started here you may see Lenovo ThinkPad l40030 laptop and at the moment it has an HDD drive I will show you whoop so what I'm going to do next I'm going to show you how to upgrade to SSD drive without reinstalling vendors now I'm going to turn on the laptop and we will proceed to the next stage okay guys we are in the Windows 10 also it will work good for Windows 8.1 Windows 11 and even for Windows 7. now we need to open browser in my case I will open Google Chrome browser here you need to type next disk genius .com and press enter so we are on this genius official website from this website we can download this software it is open source software I made several videos where I showed how to create a portable operating system for your USB stick using disk genius so after that we need to click here free download just wait a sec and as you can see downloading process begin so now we just need to wait and then we will be able to run the software I successfully download this genius on my laptop so now we can install it click on it I will select English okay except with all the terms click next and I will install it especially on my D drive local disk D I will select programs and click OK actually that's all we just need to wait cool so we successfully installed this genius on my laptop I will click finish and close the browser now please pay attention because this is very important moment as you can see this is my SSD drive and now we need to connect SSD drive to SATA adapter so I will connect it good and after that we need to connect it to the laptop perfect now we can launch this genius click on it I will open it in full screen to make it more convenient here you need to find a vast migration click on it please pay attention and take your time here you need to select the main operating system of your HDD Drive current operating system local disk C click ok then you need to select your SSD drive actually this SSD drive has 128 gigabytes but we see less than 120 gigabytes but that's normal click ok I want to warn you all information from your SSD drive will be deleted and click ok one more time please pay attention as you can see this is the current operating system HDD drive and this is SSD drive in my case I want to integrate an operating system with all files and programs and yes that's possible also I want to show you one interesting thing I will go to the properties device manager if you take a close look you may see that I installed all the drivers and that's mean after we will migrate an operating system to SSD drive we will not be forced to one more time install every single driver and definitely that's a great news now I will close this window in this window you may see a local disk C and local disk V this is partitions of HDD Drive I want to show you a very important thing click on local disk D and as you can see I have some programs OBC studio and this genius so what I'm going to do next I want to integrate all of this program on SSD drive and for this we need to migrate partition partition D I will close this window as you can see we successfully can make great operating system to SSD drive but also we need to migrate a deep partition here and for this we need to click on manage partitions then select add partition and select departition click OK nice click here in this case we successfully add the partition to SSD drive that's mean we will migrate an operating system with all files on C drive and D drive also I want to show you one useful tip to allocate space for C drive and D drive it all depends on you you need to click here in the middle and you can decide how many space you want to allocate for C drive and D drive in my case I allocated 70.5 gigabytes for C drive and almost 50 gigabytes for D drive of course it is necessary to know how much space files takes on C drive and D drive for this you can go to this PC click on the right Mouse button select properties and as you can see it takes 26.5 gigabytes of space and if we click on local disk d one more time click on properties and it takes up 528 megabytes that's mean this space will be more than enough for C and D drive as you can see at the moment I stop using screen recording program because we need to save all information at this moment on SSD drive then you need to click on start one more time I want to warn you that all information will be deleted from SSD drive not from HDD drive but from SSD drive click ok then you need to select hot migration actually that's all now you just need to wait until vendors will be migrated on SSD drive one more time I want to remind you that you can use this method even if you want to immigrate Windows 7 Windows 8 8.1 ventos 10 and even Windows 11. it will work as well we successfully cloned Windows 10 to SSD but before removing SSD drive we need to click here find this USB icon in my case I need to select external disk 3.0 now we can remove our drive after you hold this process you just need to install your SSD drive into the laptop or PC as you can see this is HDD drive and actually we have the same operating system with all files and program on this SSD drive so we can remove HDD drive and gently installed SSD drive and of course now I will turn on the laptop so fellas we are in the Windows 10 and as a final result we succeed as you can see we have a c and d Drive if we click on the D drive we have the same programs OBC studio and disk genius if you want to clone your SSD or HDD Drive definitely I recommend to use this genius it's quite useful and convenient open source software so guys if this video was useful for you please like it and I recommend watching video how to create a portable operating system for your USB drive

Channel: Andriy Mikhailovich Tech

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Length: 8min 0sec (480 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 26 2023