ssd may not beable to clone the whole drive

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waholi

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okay i just brought an ssd Sandisk 480gb harddrive an my other hard drive says 462Gb
is it anyway to clone my old hard drive to my new ssd? when formatted my ssd went to 446GB.
 
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Just uninstall some applications.
Delete old junk (especially downloads) that you do not need anymore.

On every PC that is over 6 months old, there is a LOT of crap that can be deleted.
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No you cant put 462 GB on 446 GB of space. Besides you dont want your drive to be at max anyways.
Have you ran a disk cleaner and cleared out download folder, internet files, etc?

You can create a new partition with your free space on the HDD (so if you have 1TB drive then leave 500gb for C, and make a D drive of 4XX GB).
Then transfer documents/pictures/files to that partition (anything that is not a program/game you could move here).
Then clone to your SSD.
Then you can keep your files on the HDD.
 
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You need to get your current used space to well below 400GB.

Once that is done, do this:
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Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just as like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
 
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Just uninstall some applications.
Delete old junk (especially downloads) that you do not need anymore.

On every PC that is over 6 months old, there is a LOT of crap that can be deleted.
 
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