Migrating a 4 partitioned HDD to SSD drive

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Jacob Gontmacher

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Hi y'all,

Like many of you, I'm considering replacing my Laptop HDD with SSD drive.
My HDD has 4 partitions, SYSTEM (200MB) , MY_DRIVE(200GB+), HP TOOLS (103MB) and RECOVERY (21.3GB).
All videos and manuals i met this far, refer to a single partition HDD migration.
Can you advise me of how to keep the RECOVERY and HP TOOLS partitions so I won't lose the backup of my windows 7?

Thanks,
Jacob.
 
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You may be as good to just burn an HP image DVD(s) for backup to keep the free space on the drive.

True image allows you to adjust the partitions to fill the drive. Some SSD's come with a copy as do many HDDs(normally a download from the makers website.).
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First question - how large is the new SSD?
 
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Depending on how much of the 200+GB My_Drive partition is used...you may have issues.

If you migrate the whole drive:
21.3 is already used up via the RECOVERY partition if you wish to keep that.
This leaves about 80GB of usable space on the SSD. Have to leave some space free for TRIM to do its thing.
 
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Jacob Gontmacher

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Lets say 200GB+ will be trimmer to ~40GB.. it still leaves me with 4 partitions.
If I make a disk clone how would the space be divided on SSD? Will 200GB+ become the rest of the free space after other partition were copied? If not, can I achieve that?
 
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You may be as good to just burn an HP image DVD(s) for backup to keep the free space on the drive.

True image allows you to adjust the partitions to fill the drive. Some SSD's come with a copy as do many HDDs(normally a download from the makers website.).
 
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If I were going down in size that much, that's what I'd do. HP gives some functionality to burn that RECOVERY to DVD.

Rather than sucking up 20% of the SSD space on something that may never, ever be used.
 
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Jacob Gontmacher

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Thanks for The Idea, I didn't know it's possible. I'll look into it.
 
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It looks like a good idea, 120GB isn't much anyway so I'll just burn it.
 
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