- Sep 29, 2015
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Yes, I am aware of the various guides for doing a basic version of this. Here is my quandary.
Have an old netbook I'm breathing some life into for various reasons (good keyboard, functional for school and coding) and am going to add an SSD to it to squeeze the last few ounces of performance out of it. Trouble is, I need to avoid a fresh install at all cost. Its very slow, and the process of installing all the updates and getting my IDE on it has taken an absolutely absurd amount of time (week ++). I also don't want to burn though another allowable install of the MS Office suite on my student account - I am aware this can be worked around (but still, not the main factor).
Do i have another machine I could use? Sure, but quite frankly the new lower end machines just aren't very sturdy for some reason (and have garbage touch-pads/keyboard), and this little thing is built like a tank (for reasons I will never understand).
Another complication, this only has usb2 ports, and image backup over the usb bus would also take an absurd amount of time, and would add the cost of purchasing an enclosure for the SSD (would prefer to avoid the extra costs).
I do have desktop(s) I could use to facilitate the transfer using the seemingly endless number of software solutions. I really don't have time to research each individually and try and figure out what will suit my needs exactly.
I can't seem to shrink the partition to anything smaller than 140gb for some strange reason. only utilizing 35ish gb of the main partition. There are extra partitions on the drive that do not need to be transferred, (OEM backup partition, former fedora/ centOS partitions). The current active partition came from a completely clean install (as in, no bloatware).
Currently It is using windows 7, eventually it will have win 10 on it if it ever manages to get far enough along in the updates.
Requirements:
Move the currently utilized space on the harddrive to an SSD (120gb).
+Not opposed to purchasing software
-definitely opposed to purchasing hardware that would only get used once.
Is this even possible? Am I overthinking this?
I initially though I would use an image writer, but I don't want to copy a 140gb image that has 100gb of unused space, just doesn't make sense.
Have an old netbook I'm breathing some life into for various reasons (good keyboard, functional for school and coding) and am going to add an SSD to it to squeeze the last few ounces of performance out of it. Trouble is, I need to avoid a fresh install at all cost. Its very slow, and the process of installing all the updates and getting my IDE on it has taken an absolutely absurd amount of time (week ++). I also don't want to burn though another allowable install of the MS Office suite on my student account - I am aware this can be worked around (but still, not the main factor).
Do i have another machine I could use? Sure, but quite frankly the new lower end machines just aren't very sturdy for some reason (and have garbage touch-pads/keyboard), and this little thing is built like a tank (for reasons I will never understand).
Another complication, this only has usb2 ports, and image backup over the usb bus would also take an absurd amount of time, and would add the cost of purchasing an enclosure for the SSD (would prefer to avoid the extra costs).
I do have desktop(s) I could use to facilitate the transfer using the seemingly endless number of software solutions. I really don't have time to research each individually and try and figure out what will suit my needs exactly.
I can't seem to shrink the partition to anything smaller than 140gb for some strange reason. only utilizing 35ish gb of the main partition. There are extra partitions on the drive that do not need to be transferred, (OEM backup partition, former fedora/ centOS partitions). The current active partition came from a completely clean install (as in, no bloatware).
Currently It is using windows 7, eventually it will have win 10 on it if it ever manages to get far enough along in the updates.
Requirements:
Move the currently utilized space on the harddrive to an SSD (120gb).
+Not opposed to purchasing software
-definitely opposed to purchasing hardware that would only get used once.
Is this even possible? Am I overthinking this?
I initially though I would use an image writer, but I don't want to copy a 140gb image that has 100gb of unused space, just doesn't make sense.
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