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Migrating Data to D: and then cloning OS from C: to new SSD
I'm having issues with my main 5 year old HDD; SFC/SCANNOW won't go pass 65% and after running CHKDSK/F several times in the last few months, after repairs, etc, the HDD is behaving better even though it takes quite a while to finish the boot-up process, and sometime it drags during certain tasks, I decided it's time to swap the drive before it completely dies on me.
To avoid the lengthy software re-configurations of a fresh Win7 install, I'd rather clone my C: drive with OS to the new 250 gig SSD and use my second internal Hitachi 1TB HDD(Used now for backups) to hold DATA only, I will do back-ups to a third external HDD.
I've been searching/reading Tutorials around here on how to move/migrate all my Data from C:\ to D:\ drive, leaving behind only the Win7 OS and programs on Drive C:\ to be cloned later into the SSD, of course keeping the OS links to my data on drive D:\.
I've looked into Tutorials here using 'Mklinks', 'MOVE' command, etc, but I'm afraid I'm not fully sure if any of this methods will work for me, or if even what I'm trying to do is possible.
Can someone here offer some advice and/or point/guide me to the right Tutorial to accomplish what I described above?
Thanks..