If you want to move games to SSD for better experience or larger capacity, this page will demonstrate you the best way in 2020 to transfer steam, blizzard, and other games from HDD to SSD without redownloading and reinstalling.
Generally, people have two reasons to transfer games from HDD to SSD. Firstly, the better game experience is the most common purpose. An SSD is made up of solid-state electronic chip and DRAM chip, it delivers information by flash memory, which provide much faster write and read speed than an HDD. So they want to change their HDD with new SSD.
Secondly, people move games from HDD to SSD for free space. Today's games take up large storage space, year after year, people may find the old hard drive running out of space. Thus, users tend to move their games to new SSDs making room for other important files and applications .
When you move games from HDD to another hard drive, you don’t want to spend all day redownloading those games, after all, today’s games are bigger than before. And most game console or platforms allow cloning only those game downloaded from their own websites.
To switch all of your games on your PC, you can turn to the free but powerful clone software-AOMEI Partition Assistant professional, which allow you to clone/transfer games to another disk in a few steps in Windows 10, 8, 7. Then let’s see how to move your steam, blizzard games to SSD or another hard drive.
Note:
After cloning, the data on the target hard disk will be deleted, if there are necessary data on it, please back up the SSD beforehand.
AOMEI Partition allows clone either the whole disk or a partition to another hard drive, if you install all your games in one certain partition, you can just move the partition to SSD.
If you want to replace your old HDD with SSD, you will clone whole disk with the OS, which need to change the legacy boot mode to UEFI.
If you want to move games from PC to another PC, you can use a USB flash drive to clone games, and transfer them to the other PC.
Step 1. Right-click the HDD you plan to clone, and click “Clone Disk”.
Step 2. In this window, you can choose a clone method. Generally, we choose clone “Clone Disk Quickly” which is much faster, and allows you to clone larger disk to smaller one as long as the SSD has enough space to keep all your games.
Step 3. Choose the SSD as the destination disk, and check the “Optimize the performance of SSD” . Then click “Next”.
Step 4.Then it will prompt you a message that the SSD will be formatted, make sure you back up it, and click “Yes”.
Step 5. In this window, you can adjust the partition on the destination disk. after the adjustment, and click “Next”.
Note:
Copy without resizing partition: Keeping the size of source HDD partition. If the destination disk is smaller than source disk, it will be greyed out if the SSD is smaller than the source disk.
Fit partitions to entire disk: it will adjust the partition size automatically.
Edit partitions on this disk: editing the size as you want.
Step 6. You will be noted that how to boot from the destination disk if you encounter a boot problem after cloning. Then click “Finish”.
Step 7. Go back to the main interface, click “Apply” and “Proceed” to start the process.
● Additional: Boot from the cloned SSD
If you clone system disk to SSD, you may encounter the cloned SSD won’t boot issue, and you can enter BIOS to reset the boot device.
1. Restart your computer, and long press a function key to “Enter Setup”.
2. And “Change boot order” then set the cloned SSD as boot drive.
3. Press “F10” to save and leave the BIOS setup.
This is how to transfer games from HDD to SSD in windows 10,8,7. This methods can also be applied to transfer most game consoles, like move PS game to a new hard disk.
In addition to cloning games, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional also provide other functions, such as allocating free space from one partition to another, partition recovery.
There is AOMEI Partition Assistant Server edition specialized for Windows Server. If your computer is running with Server OS, you can turn to this version.