Help I can’t clone my HHD

[Ricardoavocado62]

Apologies in advance for my incompetence, I had a tb 2 HHD which was on its last legs (began loudly clicking) bought a 480gb ssd to make a boot drive and and a new 2tb HHD. Cloned the old drive to the new 2tb no problem wiped it Reinstalled windows and am now attempting to clone windows to the boot drive. But it won’t let me keeps say there’s not enough space on the ssd when there’s only 40gb ish taken up on the hard drive please assist.

[Zmax]

You may be trying to clone the drive itself instead of the folder. Try copy and paste. It may work

[Eastman51]

24 minutes ago, Ricardoavocado62 said:

Apologies in advance for my incompetence, I had a tb 2 HHD which was on its last legs (began loudly clicking) bought a 480gb ssd to make a boot drive and and a new 2tb HHD. Cloned the old drive to the new 2tb no problem wiped it Reinstalled windows and am now attempting to clone windows to the boot drive. But it won’t let me keeps say there’s not enough space on the ssd when there’s only 40gb ish taken up on the hard drive please assist.

Just format the new 2TB HDD and reinstall Windows onto the SSD. It will be easier than cloning and cleaning the 2TB (you will have to clean the drive so that the PC doesn't boot to a nonexistent installation).

[kingknightrider]

6 hours ago, Ricardoavocado62 said:

Apologies in advance for my incompetence, I had a tb 2 HHD which was on its last legs (began loudly clicking) bought a 480gb ssd to make a boot drive and and a new 2tb HHD. Cloned the old drive to the new 2tb no problem wiped it Reinstalled windows and am now attempting to clone windows to the boot drive. But it won’t let me keeps say there’s not enough space on the ssd when there’s only 40gb ish taken up on the hard drive please assist.

 

When you clone a hard drive -the destination drive must be equal to or greater than the source disk.

When cloning occurs -EVERYTHING -both used and un-used space of the hard drive are copied exactly as they are on the old drive to the new drive.

If the destination drive is smaller than the source then the cloning can't complete due to not enough space to copy everything as it was to as it will now be.

 

The quickest way to get that bad hard drive out of the system is to clone the bad 2TB to the good 2TB then use the SSD as a data drive. 

AGAIN this is the quickest way to get back up and running but not the best solution.

 

The most efficient is to as others have said install a fresh OS onto the SDD and then just transfer the data you want to keep from the bad 2TB on to the good 2TB and make the good hard drive a data drive and then properly dispose of the bad hard drive.

 

Hope that makes sense.