Quick question

[Ted Cruzumaki]

so I recently built my new pc with an nvme installed to the motherboard. the only problem is I have trouble migrating my windows OS from my 1TB (about 600GB used) hard drive to my 500GB SSD and all of the free online cloning/migrating OS softwares ive used just say "this disk is too small" even though im specifically moving my OS only and not all my data. How to fix this? Do i have to reinstall windows?

[Bombastinator]

So you want to move 600gb of data onto a 500gb drive.  Yeah... there’s a problem there alright.

 

What you have to do is move some of the data off your drive first.  Probably a bit more than 100gb worth.

[Mihle]

Maybe try to(don't know if it works, haven't done it before personally):

 

1. Move everything above for example 400 GB to somewhere else, another HDD or something (or delete it but you probably don't want that)

2. Make the partition windows is on 500 GB or less.

3. Then try to do it

[Anomnomnomaly]

1 hour ago, Ted Cruzumaki said:

so I recently built my new pc with an nvme installed to the motherboard. the only problem is I have trouble migrating my windows OS from my 1TB (about 600GB used) hard drive to my 500GB SSD and all of the free online cloning/migrating OS softwares ive used just say "this disk is too small" even though im specifically moving my OS only and not all my data. How to fix this? Do i have to reinstall windows?

It's not trying to copy the OS only... it's cloning the entire drive. You've got a 1TB drive with a 1TB volume. So it's never going to be able to clone it.  You need to transfer as much as you can to another drive. So empty out all of your docs/downloads/music... if you've got games installed via steam for example.. move them to another location or uninstall for now.

 

A basic install of windows with some extra bits of software and not much in the way of personal files will be far less than 100GB.

[Ted Cruzumaki]

3 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

So you want to move 600gb of data onto a 500gb drive.  Yeah... there’s a problem there alright.

 

What you have to do is move some of the data off your drive first.  Probably a bit more than 100gb worth.

yeah i figured that out after a while. 

 

3 hours ago, Mihle said:

Maybe try to(don't know if it works, haven't done it before personally):

 

1. Move everything above for example 400 GB to somewhere else, another HDD or something (or delete it but you probably don't want that)

2. Make the partition windows is on 500 GB or less.

3. Then try to do it

done it. now deleting everything else.

 

2 hours ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

It's not trying to copy the OS only... it's cloning the entire drive. You've got a 1TB drive with a 1TB volume. So it's never going to be able to clone it.  You need to transfer as much as you can to another drive. So empty out all of your docs/downloads/music... if you've got games installed via steam for example.. move them to another location or uninstall for now.

 

A basic install of windows with some extra bits of software and not much in the way of personal files will be far less than 100GB.

thank you. i wish there was a better way of doing this instead of filling out my brand new ssd. ill trty doing this the next  day because my night is pretty much wasted because of this annoying thing.