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qulittaq

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Hey, I got a SSD for christmas,

I am trying to migrate my windows installation onto the ssd, however it is only 120GB and currently i have ~130GB on my C drive that will be copied over, However in WinDirStat i see my pagefile.sys is 15.9GB and my hiberfil.sys is 11.9GB.

Is there any way i could make these smaller?
 
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jetfighter545
Well even if you aren't planning to store more data on there windows usually stores stuff like program data, internet cookies, file thumbnails, dump files etc on your local disk so I usually stay well clear from the storage limit. Maybe 6GB free will suffice for a while? Depends what you're doing. My setup has a 120GB SSD as the local disk, another 120GB SSD to store games on and a 1TB HDD for bulky files. It actually works well and it's also good knowing that windows can't really touch my games drive.
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Tell me you aren't just trying to simply copy paste it are you?
If so, that's not how it's done. You have to clone the drive with something called cloning software. You can't clone if the drive you are cloning has more overall storage taken up than the one you are migrating to.
 
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qulittaq

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I am cloning it, I just need to get the total storage usage under 120GB on my main HDD
 
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OK, but even if you do though you'll only have like a GB of free space on your SSD, and that is a bad idea. Windows easily makes a gig outta nowhere. Go into the properties of your hard drive and near the little pie-chart or circle you should see a disk clean-up option. click that and wait a bit. When its done scroll through the options to find the options that you don't need and could free up your space i.e. system memory error files, internet files etc.
 
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qulittaq

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Thanks!, How much space do you recommend free on my SSD?
 
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Well even if you aren't planning to store more data on there windows usually stores stuff like program data, internet cookies, file thumbnails, dump files etc on your local disk so I usually stay well clear from the storage limit. Maybe 6GB free will suffice for a while? Depends what you're doing. My setup has a 120GB SSD as the local disk, another 120GB SSD to store games on and a 1TB HDD for bulky files. It actually works well and it's also good knowing that windows can't really touch my games drive.
 
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