The boot drive is the most fundamental of all the drives your PC may use, as it contains the operating system. Whether it's a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), it has everything ...

According to Intel, this 40GB SSD is "aimed for value netbooks and dual-drive desktop PCs as a 'boot drive' to accelerate start up times, the opening of files and overall system performance".

SSD vs HDD: Which should I have in my PC? Best answer: The best setup for most is a combination, where the solid-state drive (SSD) boots Windows and most used applications, and the hard disk drive ...

If your Windows 11/10 PC won't boot after upgrading or installing a new SSD, check the boot order. The solutions provided here will help you fix this issue.

Adding a second hard drive or SSD to your gaming PC is easy. Provided that you've got room to physically house the drive at any rate. If you've got a laptop then actually squeezing the drive ...

I boot each drive 3 times and recorded the video for the 3rd run only, with the exception of the Momentus XT where both 1st and 3rd runs were recorded. More about the methodology in the video.

If you have multiple drives in your PC, you can get away with a smaller boot drive, but I wouldn't recommend anything smaller than 250GB. If it's your only drive, get the biggest you can afford.

You can easily clone a small hard drive to a large one. It's not so easy to clone a large hard drive to an SSD.

If your Cloned SSD or HDD won’t boot Windows 11/10 operating system on your computer, you can try our recommended solutions below in no particular order and see if that helps to resolve the issue.