@Hizeki Yes. You'd clone your disk from the HDD to the SSD, or capture an image backup to a file and then restore it to the SSD. Either way works, although cloning is faster if you can have the HDD and SSD connected simultaneously. There are many applications for this purpose. Macrium Reflect is a popular choice, and it has a Free version that would be suitable for your purposes. I personally would recommend that you use Reflect, use its Rescue Media Builder application to create bootable media on a flash drive, boot your system into that, and perform your clone or image backup+restore operation there. Then for your initial boot attempt from the SSD, I typically recommend having the clone source (your HDD) disconnected or having its interface disabled in the BIOS even if you'll want to repurpose it later. Try booting from the SSD. If it fails, boot back into your Rescue Media and run the "Fix Boot Problems" utility.
Macrium has this KB article with step by step instructions for cloning a disk. Pay particular attention to Steps 4 and 5 if the SSD you're cloning onto has a different capacity compared to the HDD you're cloning from, since it shows how you can resize your Windows partition as part of the clone operation. If you'll be performing this clone in the bootable Rescue Media environment, you won't need anything past Step 7.
Ok I check the bios but I don't see anything about boot priority regarding the ssd and HD. This was the screen after pressing f2 on startup . There's also boot options of I press f12. Am I suppose to go there instead?
@Hizeki UEFI systems work very differently from Legacy BIOS systems. For boot options on local storage like internal SSDs and HDDs, you won't see a boot option just because you have an SSD installed. BIOS boot options were options like "Boot from SSD". UEFI boot options are paths to a specific bootloader FILE on specific partitions of specific devices. These path options have to be registered into the UEFI firmware. Windows Setup handles this when you perform a clean install, and that's why you'll see an option called "Windows Boot Manager" in your boot options list (not just "Boot from HDD"). When cloning, the clone process typically will not perform this registration automatically. But if you use Macrium Reflect Free as I suggested, its bootable Rescue Media includes a Fix Boot Problems wizard that will do this for you. I recommend that you disconnect or disable your original HDD before running that though, just to make sure it can only see a single Windows environment at the time it runs.
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@Hizeki Yes. You'd clone your disk from the HDD to the SSD, or capture an image backup to a file and then restore it to the SSD. Either way works, although cloning is faster if you can have the HDD and SSD connected simultaneously. There are many applications for this purpose. Macrium Reflect is a popular choice, and it has a Free version that would be suitable for your purposes. I personally would recommend that you use Reflect, use its Rescue Media Builder application to create bootable media on a flash drive, boot your system into that, and perform your clone or image backup+restore operation there. Then for your initial boot attempt from the SSD, I typically recommend having the clone source (your HDD) disconnected or having its interface disabled in the BIOS even if you'll want to repurpose it later. Try booting from the SSD. If it fails, boot back into your Rescue Media and run the "Fix Boot Problems" utility.
Macrium has this KB article with step by step instructions for cloning a disk. Pay particular attention to Steps 4 and 5 if the SSD you're cloning onto has a different capacity compared to the HDD you're cloning from, since it shows how you can resize your Windows partition as part of the clone operation. If you'll be performing this clone in the bootable Rescue Media environment, you won't need anything past Step 7.
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July 21st, 2020 10:00
Macrium the free version also works well for this purpose and like what @jphughan said.
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If I clone the hard drive and want to boot from ssd slot 1, the bios allows me to select the ssd as the first boot device?
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July 23rd, 2020 18:00
Yes.
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Ok I check the bios but I don't see anything about boot priority regarding the ssd and HD. This was the screen after pressing f2 on startup . There's also boot options of I press f12. Am I suppose to go there instead?
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July 24th, 2020 09:00
F12 is for what you want to boot into now. F2 is the setup and tells the computer which one to boot into.
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@Hizeki UEFI systems work very differently from Legacy BIOS systems. For boot options on local storage like internal SSDs and HDDs, you won't see a boot option just because you have an SSD installed. BIOS boot options were options like "Boot from SSD". UEFI boot options are paths to a specific bootloader FILE on specific partitions of specific devices. These path options have to be registered into the UEFI firmware. Windows Setup handles this when you perform a clean install, and that's why you'll see an option called "Windows Boot Manager" in your boot options list (not just "Boot from HDD"). When cloning, the clone process typically will not perform this registration automatically. But if you use Macrium Reflect Free as I suggested, its bootable Rescue Media includes a Fix Boot Problems wizard that will do this for you. I recommend that you disconnect or disable your original HDD before running that though, just to make sure it can only see a single Windows environment at the time it runs.
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Yeah like he said,
You need to disconnect the HDD to prevent the Windows Boot manager to install the os on the HDD instead of the SSD.