Question: Hello,
I’m sorry if this has been answered somewhere but I looked and couldn’t find it. Recently, I upgraded my PC by purchasing new components and switching my OS from running on an HDD to an SSD. Getting windows moved over to the SSD and setting that as the primary boot drive has been completed and with relative ease. I also bought an upgraded version of my HDD for storage purposes. The newer one has better speeds, but otherwise is the exact same brand and storage size.
My question is this – If I clone the old HDD to the new HDD, will the programs (games mostly) run more efficiently than they did on the old drive even though I have copied all files/settings etc? I am looking for better performance on the new HDD, which I assume would happen by default because of the faster speeds, but I want to be sure I don’t need to reinstall games and such on it in order to utilize it’s better performance.
I hope this makes sense. If you need more details or something please let me know!
Thanks in advance
Answer:For the secondary drive, the OS on the SSD does not care.
As long as the new drive has the same drive letter as the old one did, and as long as all the files and folders are still in the same path…it will work.
You do NOT need to, nor should you, ‘uninstall’ from the old drive first.
Clone, or a simple copy/paste from old HDD to new HDD.
As long as it ends up with the same drive letter, all is good.