I'm trying to clone my 300GB boot hard drive to a 250GB SSD, the hard drive has less than 250 GB of data stored so can I do this? Thank you all for your answers, I ended up using EaseUS Todo Backup Free to clone the drive, and am returning this item, I...
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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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It depends on your utility. Some will create a partition the size of the smaller drive and leave the rest for you to do as you please. Some will expect you to make a partition the size of the source disk before beginning. Still others will operate differently. You need to look at the details/instructions for the cloning utility. By the way, I recommend Acronis products for this kind of task. (After cloning, it's nice to have the option to resize the partition or make multiples, as you prefer.
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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. But it's a little tougher than you think. You need software to properly clone your boot drive. If you have multiple HDDs in your system, you need to unplug them for your initial boot so Windows will see the Solo as having your primary drive and will map it as such. It works very well. I used in my last computer and I was very happy with the performance. Just make sure you have a large enough SSD.
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No it won't and cloning the drive is not a good idea. You'll want to install windows directly onto the ssd and use the hdd as a backup
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It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link... » Read More It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx « Show Less
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Check the pictures; I posted one that indicates Source and Target locations.Speed varies widely with the drives. Cloning 60gb SSD drives took less than 10 mins. Cloning 500GB Western Digital 3.5" hard drives takes 30-40 mins. Please note that it doesn't take any shorter/longer based upon the contents of the drive (i.e. An empty HDD will take as long to clone as a full HDD), at least in my experience.
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You should be able to download and use the free software "Seagate DiscWizard" from the Seagate website. I know you can usually clone data from a current hard drive to a new hard drive as long as the new hard drive is larger than the current hard drive.
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I see this question a number of times here. There is a misunderstanding about disks 3TB or larger will only show 2.19TB. ONLY IF you are trying to make it a bootable device. If you are going to use it as a backup disks and if you just want to dump files there, it is not a problem. I would say it is Amazon's problem in that they were not clear. This is unfortunate, but I wonder if anyone chose a lower capacity disk due to the comment.
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instructions say no. however I would try something in desperation. change the 300gb drive to allocate less than 250gb, maybe that will work. I hope so because I will be trying the same thing at some point. otherwise use free cloning software (with a recovery disk). btw, this device is the only way I have found to clone a "dynamic" disk easily. Thank you HP for that nightmare.
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I don't know about the particular software that you mention, but I used Acronis to clone the 500 Gb hard drive that came with the notebook computer to clone it (the O.S. and drivers, more specifically) to the my new SanDisk SSD. Once I swapped out the drives in the drive bay, it worked identically. Except for, of course, the fact that the boot time was much faster, as well as my engineering programs that practically doubled in speed. I did use a desktop computer with 3 SATA drives, the first with the O.S. to boot to that had Acronis loaded, and the next two, the 500 Gb HDD and the 256 Gb SSD, to do the cloning.
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Yes. The clone will be identical to the original. SSD behave the same as regular hard drive (although much faster)
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I don't think I use it any more. It has been awhile, but I recall having problems with it...but I can't be sure.Truth is you will see no real ("butt dyno in car-nut speak<G>) difference between the different specs in real world experience, so it is not worth pursuing IMHO.If on a system drive, go with an SSd -- even w/Sata2 the difference will wow you. 120GB is plenty big enough unless you had hundreds of application, then 240. $150 or less. Keep data off the boot drive.
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Try Clonezillla. It's always worked for me and is free. It will clone your entire boot drive.
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When you clone from a large SATA hard drive to a smaller SSD drive it will most likely not work. Your best bet is to install windows from scratch, treating it as a new install. That way all partitions will be set up correctly.
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yes works well...no issues seen. follow the directions from sony hdd upgrade and get the larger file...think it was 500mb or so....for new drive install.....do hate how you cant back anything up on ps4 except game saves...so you have to redownload everything....i had a god 60+ gb
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That truly depends on how much you are presently using on your 250 now. How much do you really need. That is a question that only you can answer. I downsized quite a bit and don't miss the extra at all. I do really appreciate the speed of the solid state drive.