OEM Windows 8 to New SSD

xXNomyXx

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Aug 28, 2013
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Hi,

Recently the HDD with my laptop started to fail. Rather than sending it back and loosing a few days without a laptop I bought a 256GB SSD. It's not used for gaming so 256GB is fine.

I've used EaseUS backup tool and it's a horrible experience. The recovery partition should only be 20GB and it sets it to 60GB. When I attempt to correct this I'm left with unallocated space that for reasons unknown will not expand into the default drive.

If anyone has any software, I don't mind spending a bit of money granted it clones partitions as well.

Thanks! :)

EDIT: No backup disks came with the laptop. (Bought from HP)
 
Solution
Check the HDD in your laptop to see the HDD is wd or Seagate.
If WD using this software to cloning ( free) http://support.wd.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en
If from Seagate http://www.seagate.com.edgekey.net/support/downloads/discwizard/

Or if you have the win8 key, you can do the clean install the win8.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/clean-install

And other link has useful info. Useful SSD Articles - Part 2 section "Tweaks / Optimization" http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/270102-32-useful-articles-part
Check the HDD in your laptop to see the HDD is wd or Seagate.
If WD using this software to cloning ( free) http://support.wd.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en
If from Seagate http://www.seagate.com.edgekey.net/support/downloads/discwizard/

Or if you have the win8 key, you can do the clean install the win8.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2299-clean-install-windows-8-a.html
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/clean-install

And other link has useful info. Useful SSD Articles - Part 2 section "Tweaks / Optimization" http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/270102-32-useful-articles-part
 
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