How to Swap Data in Drives?

[toastythomas]

I have a 128 GB SSD in my current PC. It's a dated SSD but it still runs great. However, my laptop has a 250 GB SSD from Samsung, one of those 850 EVO. I want to put the larger SSD in my PC and have the smaller SSD in my laptop. The 250GB SSD is nowhere near capacity as it's in a laptop with not much on it. Is there a way I can put the data from the almost full 128GB SSD onto the 250GB SSD and have the little data from the 250GB SSD go to the 128GB SSD? Both are carrying OS.

[Lurick]

Do you want to swap just the data or the programs too?

[toastythomas]

Just now, Lurick said:

Do you want to swap just the data or the programs too?

Everything. In reality I only want to keep the files on the 128 GB SSD.

[Lurick]

Just now, toastythomas said:

Everything.

Without a third drive, I don't know of a way.

[toastythomas]

Just now, Lurick said:

Without a third drive, I don't know of a way.

I have a 1TB HDD with a lot of extra space.

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, toastythomas said:

I have a 1TB HDD with a lot of extra space.

Partition that in half, just to be safe.

Then clone the large drive onto the HDD, clone the small SSD onto the 250GB SSD, and then clone from the HDD to the small SSD.

ShadowCopy or Clonezilla should work but make sure they don't erase the 1TB HDD when cloning.

[toastythomas]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Partition that in half, just to be safe.

Then clone the large drive onto the HDD, clone the small SSD onto the 250GB SSD, and then clone from the HDD to the small SSD.

ShadowCopy or Clonezilla should work but make sure they don't erase the 1TB HDD when cloning.

I editted it in, so Im not sure if you saw, but would this be different if I dont care about the current contents of the 250GB SSD.

[Lurick]

Just now, toastythomas said:

I editted it in, so Im not sure if you saw, but would this be different if I dont care about the current contents of the 250GB SSD.

If you don't care about the contents at all, you could make a Windows installer for your version of Windows on the laptop, clone the 128GB to the 250GB and the install Windows on the 128GB drive after verifying everything.

[toastythomas]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

If you don't care about the contents at all, you could make a Windows installer for your version of Windows on the laptop, clone the 128GB to the 250GB and the install Windows on the 128GB drive after verifying everything.

Okay. Thank you. I'll let you know when everything is done.

[toastythomas]

46 minutes ago, toastythomas said:

Okay. Thank you. I'll let you know when everything is done.

So I went through the program, did everything. Followed a guide. I booted from the new SSD and it gets a windows error and windows forces a restart. Then, when I try to boot from the old drive, everything works. Its like nothing happened. Not sure what happened.