cloning a full hard drive to a new, smaller one

saymonxster · Dec 22, 2016

So i have an old 2TB hdd that is almost full and contain my OS and i want to migrate some of it to a new one i got that has 1TB only.

the only things i want to migrate are the OS and any installed app and related files to the new one while using the old one as storage for the rest (and deleting all migrated data from the old hard drive with minimised extra effort)

is there any easy way to do it or should i just install a fresh install and reinstall all apps?

i have a windows 10 64bit, hitachi (old hard drive) and western digital (new hard drive)

any additional info will be supplied

Sinji58 · Dec 22, 2016

Use either macrium or Paragon.

I've used macrium to move data from my hard drive to SSD. It's pretty easy to use, but you have to know a little about partitioning but you're one Google search away from the answer.

boosted1g · Dec 22, 2016

You cant pick and choose files to clone to an SSD, it is more or less an all-or-nothing kind of deal.

And even if you could select folders you would still end up copying over all the user-data and registry keys for a program.

Best option is to do a clean install.
Other option is to offload the things you dont want cloned to another driver, and then clone your drive once you have the used space down to 800MB or less.

SkyNetRising · Dec 22, 2016

saymonxster :

Only easy way would be, if you had your OS and data in separate partitions.
But if you have not done that, then sorry - there's no easy way. Either you need additional storage or reinstall everything.

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