I bought a new Samsung EVO 850 500gb SDD recently to replace my only HDD. I plugged in my SDD and started cloning (using the Samsung clone app) from my HDD. I had both my SDD and HDD plugged in concurrently and running together. So on my first reboot, it still relied on HDD's OS to boot. So I removed the power to my HDD, and now its booting from my SDD.

However when I am at the boot screen, i'm seeing 3 boot options. I also have a "System Reserved" drive (with a letter assigned to it).



My objective is to make sure I am optimizing my SDD. I have since "delete volume", resulting in the "System Reserved" removed. Also, I have right clicked on my HDD (under "My PC") and did a format (unchecked the "Quick Format" option) of that drive. Is there anything else I should do? Is it necessary to have a clean install of windows 10 on my SDD now that my HDD is formatted?




Below is what my drive reads now:



This post was edited by xfer on Oct 27 2017 09:34am

probably should have left it alone

Do you mean the "System Reserved"? I dont mind re-installing a clean version all over again, I just formatted my HDD before i bought the SDD, so theres minimal fuss if necessary.

Its always going to be less of a headache just reinstalling a clean os in a new drive.

+1 what i do

sorry op can't help but just want to say glad u got an ssd

should be huge performance gains once u get all settled in

Use EasyBCD & EaseUS partition manager.

Windows create important files in the "system reserved" so I'm afraid that if you delete them you'll fuck yourself.


This post was edited by Fugate on Oct 27 2017 08:23pm