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I've got two SSDs.

One has my Windows10 install on it and it's 250GB. The other has an install of Windows 7 I frequently boot into and that one is 500GB but it hardly has anything on it. Maybe 50GB. And I need that space for my Win10 C drive. So I basically want to swap them. Is that an issue? 

I'd rather not just reinstall though I know that will be a lot of people's advice. I simply don't have the time right now to re-setup everything I use on my Win10 C drive.

But can I just do a full backup of the 500 to an appropriate sized HDD as an image or something, then clone the 250 to that 500, and then at the end send the 500 backup to the now empty 250?

 

If this is doable, any leads on software? I usually use Macrium to do full backups.

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38 minutes ago, tinpanalley said:

But can I just do a full backup of the 500 to an appropriate sized HDD as an image or something, then clone the 250 to that 500, and then at the end send the 500 backup to the now empty 250?

Yes, that's the best day to do it. I recently used a free program called Disk Genius to clone backups for moving them from drive to drive, but anything will do

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