Reinstallation on SSD, how much GB needed for clean install?

I'm not storing data on an SSD; thats my OS drive.

I'm not TOUCHING the HDD, period, until it's accidentally deleted volume is recovered...

AddRAM said:

Then what are you talking about by saying migrating the old to the new ?

Nyarlathotep said:

Or (Option 2) partition the SSD and put a fresh clean installation of my Windows on the new partition, then gradually migrate data (ie My Docs, Etc) from the old to the new, and then just reinstall a few essential applications... the only catch being my Steam installation has a number of junctions created to the HDD using Steam Mover; so I'll presume that after reinstalling Steam, I'll probably have to copy the original from the old partition, over onto the new.

Lets see....

My Documents
My Pictures
My Music
My Videos

Basically, everything in the My Docs folder.

But thats old news.

Read the rest of the thread please, that was before I was told that with my Retail copy of Win 7... It can be simply transfered to a new computer without reinstalling anything.

gregrocker said:

You can migrate Win7 retail to any other hardware you want for life. Why would you need to buy another copy?

I would try doing the adaptive restore to see how it performs, then if not to your liking you can reinstall.

The problem that I have now is...

While prepping my USB drive for that Paragon software to do the adaptive restore, I accidentally wiped out the volume on my 932GB WD Hard Drive... instead of the 934MB USB drive... I got the numbers mixed up cause I was too tired to pay attention to what I was doing last night... 850+ GB of data and applications, accidentally wiped out...

Now I am trying to recover that volume on that HDD, cause thats where all the rest of the important data is stored, including the latest Back Up of my SSD, that was made last night.

See this thread > click < for those details...

I'm in complete panic mode atm until I figure out how to recover that accidentally deleted volume...

Well thats where Windows put it.

But I don't care about that right now...

I'm more concerned about recovering the lost volume on my HDD...

I cant do anything else until thats recovered.

Its an older copy of Win 7 Ultimate.

I bought it 5 years ago; March of 2011....

SP1 was released in February of 2011; so I obviously got one of the older copies that did not include it yet.