I want to clone my HDD to a Crucial MX500 SSD 1TB for Windows 10. The SSD should then become the main hard disk and the HDD second disk. Unfortunately, all the instructions that I can find only work with a SATA-to-USB cable, which is not included and I don't want to have to buy it. In addition, this mostly only applies to laptops. I use a desktop PC.
The current problem is that the drive letter C: can't exist at the same time. After all, the HDD can get a different letter, but during the cloning process it has to be the same letter twice. How can I solve this problem as easily as possible?
I'm now about to initialize so that the SSD can be displayed at all, but there's the problem with the double C:.
PS: It annoys me a lot at the moment that I have to ask this question, because I was hoping that it would go quite smoothly and that it would take a few hours at most, or that there would be a helpful video or a website somewhere. But that is not the case. I can probably forget to set the SSD correctly this year, as I hardly have any time today.
Nevertheless, I would like to thank everyone who wants to help me.
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You're confusing that. The system assigns the drive letter internally, it doesn't mean anything and is not stored in the partition tables on the disk. You can mount and clone it as D: and then boot from it. Cloning works fine with gparted.
OK. It worked.
