Transferring data between internal HDs

[fcarson]

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to transfer data from one traditional internal HD to an SSD? Basically, I have one SSD to boot my computer, one SSD to download everything to, and one traditional HD to store all my junk. My one SSD is full and I was wondering if I could move everything on there over to my traditional HD? And I don't mean make a copy.

Before: (Data) SSD1 / (Free) HD
After: (Free) SSD1 / (Data) HD

Thanks in advance!

 

[voyagerfan99]

Just move whatever miscellaneous crap you don't want on the SSD over to the mechanical drive.

 

[fcarson]

Every time I do that it just makes a copy. Anyway around this? I am dragging and dropping it btw.

 

[porterjw]

After it's copied (and you verified it was copied) to the new drive, just delete it from the old one.

 

[johnb35]

Cut and paste.......

 

[beers]

If you hold shift while you are dropping it will Move instead of Copy as well.

 

[fcarson]

Of course. Makes sense. Thank you.

 

[fcarson]

Ok. As a follow up. It seems to be moving only part of it and every time I try again it is adding a full 100gbs to my tb HD. When I look for duplicate files to delete on my traditional HD I moved it over too, the only thing there is a my pc icon and the only option is to restore it. What the heck is going on here? Any clues?