By defragging a HDD, you put the information in a relatively 'straight' line/same area on the platter. The platter is a circular magenetic disk that contains information on 'tracks' which are circular (and go around the platter). Regular Hard Disk Drives use what's called a 'platter' inside of the HDD. This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command. Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it. Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure. It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive. Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD Select ALL the partitions on the existing C driveĭisconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration) Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSDĭownload and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)ĭisconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD Specific steps for a successful clone operation:

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