To begin, SSD stands for Solid State Drive. You should know that SSD is faster than
HDD (Hard Disk Drive). So setting up SSD for OS only would increase the load speed
greatly. Although a SSD is more expensive than a HDD now, you can buy a small one,
which is comparatively cheap. For example, buying a 64 GB SSD and using it for OS
only is enough. If you have enough budget, you can buy another SSD for games or
other programs that need high speed of reading and writing.
If this is your first time to build a computer with SSD disk, then you can connect
your SSD and install Windows on SSD drive directly. If you
have installed OS on HDD before, and you want to optimize your computer. For
example, transfer the operating system from HDD to SSD, but don’t want to reinstall
the operating system. What do you do then? One way is doing it with complex command
line or backup first then restore. But here I would like to recommend you the best
way - using AOMEI Partition Assistant to
realize SSD migration. This feature allows you to do SSD 4K alignment as well.

Plug your SSD on your computer first. Download AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional
Edition from the official website, install and open. Click “Migrate OS to SSD” from
the left Wizards panel and click “Next ” in the pop-up window.

In this step, select an unallocated disk (SSD) and click “Next” to continue.

Here, you can resize partition and change drive letter as you wish. Type the value or
directly drag to adjust.

After everything has been done, back to the main screen, click “Apply” to commit the
changes.

Now you see, with the help of AOMEI Partition Assistant, setup SSD for OS only
becomes much easier. Be sure to free
up SSD disk space every a couple of months to ensure fast running speed. You
can perform lots of partition optimization operations with this software. Practical
feature: move partition, delete all partitions, split partition, extend partition,
etc. It is safe to use and won’t cause data loss.
With the popularization of Windows 8, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to create
a portable Windows 8 that boot from USB drive. That is “Windows to Go Creator”. You
can also do a backup before transferring OS to SSD with AOMEI Backupper.
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