Cloning a hard drive

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I just bought a Samsung 960 Evo m.2 SSD, and I want it to be my boot drive. I know how to clone drives but, my current drive in the computer is a 2 TB 5400 RPM hard drive, and the m.2 SSD is 256 GB. I only have about 150 GB of data on the hard drive, can I clone the stuff on the 2 tb hard drive to the SSD fine?
 
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austintx1985
In order to make your SSD your boot drive, it needs to be setup as such, which typically requires installation of the OS onto it. Once that is complete, you can move all data from the HDD to the SSD with no issues.
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In order to make your SSD your boot drive, it needs to be setup as such, which typically requires installation of the OS onto it. Once that is complete, you can move all data from the HDD to the SSD with no issues.
 
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Samsung have cloning software for their ssd.
 
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A fresh install will work, but cloning is easier.
It has been my experience that the target partition must be the same size or larger than the source partition in order to clone it.

1. Download EaseUS Partition Master.
2. Resize the 2TB partition on the HDD to be about 250GB. The rest will be un-allocated for now.
3. Clone the 250GB HDD partition to the 256GB SSD. The PC will reboot and do this in Linux.
4. Resize the 250GB HDD partition back to 2TB.

 
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