On 08/03/2018 06:52 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I have a 0.5TB rotating rust disk currently having Windows 10 (GPT and EFI) which I want to migrate to a 1TB SSD disk.
Super easy. Use the Windows backup/create image and write your current w10 drive out to a spare rust disk that can hold it. Take your .5T rust w10 out, put your SSD in, pop your w10 recovery USB (that you were prompted to make when you created the image) and at the 1st windows screen choose restore system image -- it will roll your image your wrote out, set everything up on the new SSD and on reboot, just go to disk manager and tell windows to use the whole of the new SSD -- done. If you have funky partitions that prevent the resize to the whole SSD -- they make a free utility to move it to the end so you can resize to your full ssd. I would take that route instead of dd for a native win10 install. I've done 2 that way and it was painless. I have a USB->SATA adapter, so I just hand an old 1T rust drive off the side of the laptop to hold the image created, then swap laptop drives for the new SSD and then boot the recovery. No issues going rust to SSD. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.