Question: I have Windows 10 installed and running on a hard disk drive. I would like to migrate it to a solid state drive that I’ve recently purchased.
By this I mean that I’d like to copy both the OS and all the applications and files that are installed with it to the SSD and resume working with them “seamlessly” when migration is done.
So far I’ve been able to accurately copy the contents of the HDD over to the SSD by using the Standard edition of AOMEI Partition Assistant. Now I believe I need to make my computer boot from the SSD instead of from the HDD.
Am I correct in this approach and if so, how can I make my computer boot from the SSD, preferably using free tools?
Answer: I, personally, don’t own a windows machine to check the tool you linked out to know if it does drive migration.
That being said, there are free tools out there to do a drive migration. It shouldn’t matter what kind of drive it is, HDD or SSD. You can use CloneZilla for that purpose.
Once the drive is cloned from one drive to the other, there is no need for any tools to make the new drive boot. All you would need to do is go to the BIOS or the UEFI of your computer and choose the main drive to boot from. After that, you should be good to go.