How to Easily Manage Your SSD in Windows 10/11?

People's need for disks increasing as computers get more advanced. After SSD appeared, users prefer to choose it as the system disk for its faster reading/writing speed, stable performance, and durability. Several years ago, because of its cost, many users could only install one for their system, but now SSD is no longer an option that users need to hesitate for its price before buying.

Normally gamers or tech developers choose to set up an SSD and HDD combo to maximize the advantages of these 2 different disks. And if they need a better system environment, some of them may need 2 SSDs on one PC.

Although more disks bring better performance, the problem also comes: how to manage multiple disks on the computer efficiently and securely?

Thus, to help you efficiently and safely set up a new SSD and manage SSD easily, we prepare some nice ideas.

How to set up new SSD in Windows 10?

After you install your SSD on your computer, now you need to set up it. If it’s a total new SSD, after the installation, you need to initialize it in Disk Management and format it.

Step 1. Right-click “My Computer/This PC”, and select “Manage” to open the window.

Step 2. Then click on “Storage” > “Disk Management”. Right-click the new SSD drive and choose “Initialize Disk”.

Step 3. On the next window, choose a proper partition style for your SSD and click on “OK”.

After initializing the disk with MBR or GPT, you can format and partition the disk.

Step 1. Right-click the unallocated space on the hard drive and choose “New Simple Volume”.

Step 2. You can see New Simple Volume Wizard; then click “Next”.

Step 3. Then, follow the wizard to specify the size of the new partition, assign a drive letter to it and format it with a file system.

Then you can use this SSD.

How to manage SSD in Windows 10?

After you set up your SSD, you can use it to install Windows and apps. But, to reinstall them is a big work that needs time and energy, not to mention all your data will lose and you’ll need to set the system again. What’s more, during the use, you may need to convert the partition style if you’re not satisfied with your early choice; you might wish to completely erase all private if you want to sell it… There are so many works you need to worry about for a disk management job.

Therefore, to release you from all these works, we sincerely recommend you a reliable and handy SSD manager, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional to help you manage your disks efficiently.

It is a disk and partition manager developed specifically for all Windows 11/10/8/8.1/7/XP users to organize their devices. It allows users to:

• Migrate OS to SSD without reinstalling
• Clone disk
• Convert disk between MBR/GPT without data loss
• Secure erase SSD
• Move installed programs to another drive/disk
…

With only one tool, you can manage your SSD and other disks as an expert. Next, we’ll show you some details about this tool.

1. Migrate OS to SSD without reinstalling

If you have an HDD or a smaller SSD as the current system disk, you can use “Migrate OS to SSD” to do a quick disk upgrade to set your new SSD as the system disk without reinstalling the system. And you can keep all your customized settings.

Step 1. Launch AOMEI Partition Assistant. To migrate OS to SSD, click "Clone" > “Migrate OS" on the main interface. It will lead you to the wizard of migrating OS to SSD. Click “Next” to move on.

Step 2. Then, you should select the SSD as the destination place to store the system files.

Step 3. Next, you can resize the system partition on the SSD.

Step 4. A note on how to boot from the SSD after migration will appear. After reading it, click "Finish".

Step 5. Do not forget to click ‘’Apply” to submit all operations.

After migration, then reboot your computer, please enter the BIOS setup environment to change the boot order to boot the computer from the target SSD to check if the SSD is bootable.

2. Clone the entire disk to SSD

Step 1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional and choose “Clone” > “Clone Disk” in the main interface.

Step 2. In the new window, you can choose a way to clone HDD to SSD based on your situation. We recommend you choose “Clone Disk Quickly”.

Step 3. Choose the source disk and click “Next”.

Step 4. Then select the SSD drive as the destination disk and click “Next”.

Step 5. Now, you can also resize partitions just being created on an SSD drive. If the new SSD is smaller, the first option will be greyed out.

Step. 6 Click “Finish” and then click “Apply” to execute the pending operation.

3. Convert to MBR/GPT without data loss

After Windows 11 was released, many users need to convert their SSD with MBR partition style to GPT for the new system because Windows 11 only support UEFI. If you also need to convert your disk, no matter system disk or data disk, AOMEI Partition Assistant can realize a data-safe conversion.

Step 1. Install and launch the software, right-click the MBR disk you want to change, and then choose Convert to GPT.

Step 2. In the pop-up windows, click OK to continue.

Step 3. Click Apply to operate and then your disk will be changed into GPT disk style.

With only 3 steps, you can easily convert your disk.

4. Secure erase your old SSD

Some users might wish to abandon or sell the old SSD, only formatting and deleting won’t completely clear all information on your disk. To avoid data leaking, only secure erase can protect your privacy. Because disk erases tool can clean all data and overwrite useless information to cover original data to prevent data recovery tool.

Step 1. Connect your SSD to a Windows 7 computer via SATA port (since SSD Secure Erase is only workable in Windows at present). Install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.

Step 2. In the left menu of AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "SSD Secure Erase Wizard" and click "Next". Or, click on the SSD and select "Wipe" > "SSD Secure Erase".

Step 3. Select the SSD that you want to securely erase and click "Next".

Step 4. Double check the SSD identification information in case of erasing the wrong SSD because the data is unrecoverable after the Erase. Now, you will see the SSD is in a frozen state. To continue, you need to perform a hot swap.

Step 5. Click "Next" to start the SSD Secure Erase.

To sum up

Installing SSD for Windows 10 is a nice option to upgrade your PC performance to a higher level. With help of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can efficiently manage all your disks with practical functions. Besides all mentioned in the post, this tool also can extend/create/delete/format/wipe/shrink partition. You can easily resize your partitions with functions like “Allocate Free Space”, “Resize/Move Partition”, “Split Partition”, etc.

What’s more, it has the Server Edition for all Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)/2008(R2)/2003 users to manage Server devices.