Last time I cloned my boot drive I used Acronis 2015 trial which was included withe the new SSD: the 2017 version should also work in trial mode https://www.acronis.com/en-eu/personal/true-image-features/
On 24 July 2017 at 00:39, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
