I'm adding a 256 gb msata drive to my laptop and have been looking into
how to migrate my current Win10 installation to the new drive. The goal
is to move to OS and apps to the msata drive and leave the 320 gb HDD
for data. The laptop is pretty bare bones - just the OS, Photoshop,
Office 2007 and a handful of other apps. All told less than 40gb of
drive space is used. Aside from the C drive there are two recovery
partitions, one at the start of the drive and one at the end. Laptop is
a Thinkpad x220 with legacy bios, no UEFI partion...
So - what would be the best way to move the system? It seems that many
clone programs - e.g. Filezilla - say they cannot clone a larger drive
to a smaller one. Tools like EaseUS partition manager sound good but
reading the comments on their websites they also have limits when it
comes to shrinking partitions. And there also seem to be problems with
getting the newly cloned partition to be bootable. In the past I've
moved older versions of Windows to larger drives and used my install
media to make the cloned partition bootable, but I have no installation
media with this laptop. I've used the bootfix and bcdboot command to
troubleshoot boot problems on Win10 in the past, so maybe the bootablity
issue can be overcome.
Any insights or experiences re what approach would work best? I hope to
receive the drive later this week.
Mark
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