Thanks, Toine, I'll take a look at Acronis. In the past I used
Clonezilla but they openly not the issue with larger to smaller
partitions. And I also had to make the cloned image bootable. But if
Acronis is bundled iwth SSD's then it maybe overcomes those issues.
Mark
Toine wrote:
Maybe you could try this one. It has clone mode enabled
Acronis True Image WD Edition Software
On the bottom of
https://support.wdc.com/product.aspx?ID=1800&lang=en
On 24 July 2017 at 11:35, Toine <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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