In other words, you will be following the steps below at your own risk. Therefore, you agree that if all of your folding money turns into losing scratch-off lottery tickets, your dog hijacks the postman’s mail truck and drives it to Disney World to audition for the role of Goofy, or everything on your SSD gets wiped out and you have to reinstall Windows, it won’t be the fault of your humble tech blogger (namely me). Important: Following the instructions below on the wrong drive (in this case the SSD) will wipe out everything on the boot drive and render the laptop unbootable.

I’ll be glad to explain how to do that, but first I must ask you to read, understand and agree to my semi-standard disclaimer: Since you already have your files copied off of the old drive onto another one, you can easily repartition the old hard drive and reformat it as one larger, single partition drive. Rick’s answer: It sounds like you did everything just right Aaron, and I’ll bet you’re enjoying the speed increase provided by the SSD! How can I reformat the old drive as one single large partition? The problem is the old drive still contains the original partitions for the operating system and the system recovery files. The SSD is working great and so is the old hard drive (which is now being used as an external drive). I bought one of the external USB drive enclosures for the old hard drive, then I plugged it into a USB port and copied all of my files onto another external drive. Question from Aaron L.: A while back I replaced the hard drive in my HP laptop with an SSD, then installed Windows 7 from the DVD.Īfter I got all the Windows Updates installed I upgraded the system to Windows 10. Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

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