Thanks, Yolanda - I think you gave me the magic words to google.
Googling "make a bootable image of Win10 hard drive" took me to a step
by step article that seems to address what I need to do. I have a
bootable rescue disk (thumbrdive actually) and a system image backup but
the documentation for the system back says it will not work if the
destination drive is smaller than then source. But I think the page I
just found might do the trick...
On 7/24/2017 12:35 PM, Yolanda Rowe wrote:
I made a bootable image which will work on a thumb drive. If you're
interested in putting in the work, I'll dig up the directions and links.
I hate relying totally upon downloading software. It's one thing when
you have a reliable connection (not where I live) and one can trust
that the program will be available (trust m$? nah).
Good luck with the install and migration!
Regards,
Yolanda
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Mark C <[email protected]
<mailto:[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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