if i change my boot device from a hard drive to an ssd, will

>>350426
if the SSD is large enough to contain everything currently on the HD, you can simply clone it and everything will be preserved

if it is not large enough, you would have to start over with windows

>my motherboard has an m.2 drive, so i would use that
wat

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>>350439
thanks. im guessing starting over with windows means reinstalling drivers and all that?

also, i meant. m.2 slot, sorry.

>>350442
if you had to reinstall windows, yes

>m.2 slot
ahh, that makes more sense

if you are getting a large enough ss drive, you can simply copy everything from the HD, and it should work just the same

if you don't have enough space, and don't have a separate to temporarily use for storage during the move, you're probably stuck

next best option would be to take out the HD, plug in SSD, install windows, then plug in the HD and manually copy over whatever you want to keep

>>350445
Not boned, just clone the EFI partition then boot the Windows installer, shift-f10, copy \Windows, \Program files, \users, and \program files (x86) to the new drive, then boot the installer again without the old drive connected, and do a startup repair.

I've not tried this, but there's no reason it shouldn't work. Obviously if \Users is full of stuff, don't copy all of it.

>>350469
>I've not tried this, but there's no reason it shouldn't work
said X many people when they try and do repairs that should be simple, like a repair install

>>350492
1) it's not a repair install, it's a startup repair, which is merely writing on a bootloader and regenerating the BCD
2) IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER IF IT WORKS OR NOT BECAUSE IT'S BEING DONE ON A BLANK SSD.

Here, I've made a backup of all the data OP might lose: "". It's there between the quote marks.