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So I recently purchased an  SSD for my laptop;

 

My o.s is installed on my 500GB HDD, I purchased a 120GB SSD, The SSD is too small to clone my HDD onto as my HDD is 2/3 capacity. How then do i migrate my o.s to the SSD  while keeping all my files from my HDD?

 

 

Hey XeMario,
 
You basically have three options:
 
- The one that I would recommend is a complete fresh install. I would recommend backing up everything from the boot partition, format it and then do a clean install of the OS on the SSD. You would have to reinstall all the games and applications too.
 
- Clone the boot partition. Some cloning software programs provide the option to only clone your boot partition, re-sizing it in order to fit the smaller SSD. This involves some risk of data corruption and the SSD being recognized as a HDD, thus being susceptible to defragmentation and missing out functions like TRIM.
 
- Moving your OS via the Windows Image recovery tool. You basically crease an ISO of your boot partition and then resotre it using the system repair disk. Here's more info on that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/restore-computer-from-system-image-backup#1TC=windows-7
 
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So I recently purchased an  SSD for my laptop;

 

My o.s is installed on my 500GB HDD, I purchased a 120GB SSD, The SSD is too small to clone my HDD onto as my HDD is 2/3 capacity. How then do i migrate my o.s to the SSD  while keeping all my files from my HDD?

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Just move the normal files to an external HDD or something until the HDD is small enough to clone to the SSD..

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Start fresh. Also, please search the site, there are hundreds of threads asking the same question.

When in doubt, re-format.

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So I recently purchased an  SSD for my laptop;

 

My o.s is installed on my 500GB HDD, I purchased a 120GB SSD, The SSD is too small to clone my HDD onto as my HDD is 2/3 capacity. How then do i migrate my o.s to the SSD  while keeping all my files from my HDD?

 

 

Hey XeMario,
 
You basically have three options:
 
- The one that I would recommend is a complete fresh install. I would recommend backing up everything from the boot partition, format it and then do a clean install of the OS on the SSD. You would have to reinstall all the games and applications too.
 
- Clone the boot partition. Some cloning software programs provide the option to only clone your boot partition, re-sizing it in order to fit the smaller SSD. This involves some risk of data corruption and the SSD being recognized as a HDD, thus being susceptible to defragmentation and missing out functions like TRIM.
 
- Moving your OS via the Windows Image recovery tool. You basically crease an ISO of your boot partition and then resotre it using the system repair disk. Here's more info on that: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/restore-computer-from-system-image-backup#1TC=windows-7
 
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Thank you for the advice, I got an external hdd, i think i will back up and do the fresh install

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