

RELATED: How to Migrate Your Windows Installation to a Solid-State Drive If you, for instance, bought a cheap and slow 1TB mechanical HDD on sale and discovered that it wasn’t such hot disk to use as your operating system disk, you might be in the market for a smaller and faster 256GB SSD or the like. Ideally you’ll be migrating from a smaller drive to a larger drive, but there are situations where you may be migrating from a larger to smaller drive. Hard Disks: The first two, and most obvious: you’ll need your existing hard drive and a second new hard drive.

The first three are must have items and the fourth is variable dependent on your hardware setup and needs.

For this tutorial you’ll need four things.
