Will this work to clone to a SSD drive that has a smaller capacity than my existing HDD?
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Yes, as long as the drive has enough space for every thing on the old hard drive.
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Yes I did. if it don't work, download easeus data partition and partition data before you clone. I went from 1tb HDD to 512 ssd with no problems
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Yes, if the SSD drive is large enough to hold the contents of the old drive. This is exactly what I did with my upgrade.
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Yes, as long as your not transferring more then 230gig to the new drive. As far as transferring all your info they make a bunch of cloning software. BUT! I highly recommend just reinstall everything from scratch and only transferring what you need from your old to new drive. It will make it run a lot smoother and cleaner.
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yes as long as the drive is not encrypted. I cloned by 500 Hard drive to the SSD 500 GB drive with no issues. once cloned took out the hard drive and plugged in the SSD, booted right up.
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The new drive MUST have at least the same capacity as the original drive. In other words, the SSD drive must be equal to 300GB or more for it to wor, regardless of how much data you have on the original drive.
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Or you can use a program like SuperDuper and duplicate your hard drive directly onto the SSD
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Your HDD needs to have LESS app storage space. For instance if your HDD has 120GB's of Data installed, you will be fine with this 240GB drive. You need to CLONE the HD to the SSD. Using a USB to Sata Cable. I have found that using my Thermaltake Black Sata Docking station does not work with this drive being able to read it much less use it for cloning. You can get some easy free Clone software from online. Clone your HDD to the SSD, then install the SSD on the cable your HDD is on. Switch your HDD to another Sata port if you plan to use the HDD as a DATA drive such as for your PC games.
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yes. I specifically used Casper to clone my internal 500gb hdd to the external 2tb hdd and then I replaced the 500gb with the 2tb and the process went smoothly. Now I turned the old 500gb into a new external drive.
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Yes, it essentially turns the new drive into the old one. I did this on a Acer netbook and it worked fine after swapping to the cloned drive.
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Yes, everything would be copied ... as long as the drive you are copying to is the same size or larger than your original
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yes as long as the drive is not encrypted.I cloned by 500 Hard drive to the SSD 500 GB drive with no issues.once cloned took out the hard drive and plugged in the SSD, booted right up.
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Yes it will work from SSD to a regular hard drive and vice a versa. It also works with different physical size drive like 2.5" to 3.5" etc. As long as the size you are copying to is equal to or larger than the original size. 500GB to 500GB or 320GB to 1TB.
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If you just need to clone a drive you may find other utilities better suited. This specializes in moving to an equal or larger Solid State Drive (SSD) drive. Not all disk cloning software works with solid state drives as I tried a couple of others before this and they copied the data, but the PC would not boot to the clone. I normally use other utilities to clone SATA drives.
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Yes you can, it will depend on which program you use. I use a paid program, Paragon Migrate which will do it with both drives installed and in use, other programs such as the free version of Macrium Reflect will and I believe paragon backup and restore will. Some programs such as Acronis, will begin with the drive in use then tell you to reboot and do the actual clone during the reboot. With the Thermaltake Black X you can clone to the Black X or with the drive installed, and is easier when connected by eSATA but will do USB also.
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It depends in which software that you use, I believe there is some paid software that can clone only the OS but as always it is recommended to just reinstall straight onto the SSD
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I believe so. I have cloned many drives to 500gb, 750gb and 1 terabyte drives using acronis software
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I did not try to clone a active hardrive like your question but you can try. However, you can use a clone from Samsung SSD drive software to clone your active harddrive, I what I did with my laptop
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I use it for direct drive to drive copies. It doesn't cone with cloning software. I've never tried