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So I'm going to need to ghost a new laptops hard drive onto a SSD so I can use the SSD instead of the HDD without having to reinstall everything. What programs do you guys recommend for this?

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but you'll need to manually shrink the source partition down to size beforehand, as it can't do that. I use gParted to do that

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So I'm going to need to ghost a new laptops hard drive onto a SSD so I can use the SSD instead of the HDD without having to reinstall everything. What programs do you guys recommend for this?

clonezilla

 

but you'll need to manually shrink the source partition down to size beforehand, as it can't do that. I use gParted to do that

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but you'll need to manually shrink the source partition down to size beforehand, as it can't do that. I use gParted to d

Oh okay cool, I didn't realize you could use gParted on Windows. Thanks for the help!

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Oh okay cool, I didn't realize you could use gParted on Windows. Thanks for the help!

well you can't use it IN windows, but you can boot to it from a usb or livecd, works just the same

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