DeathNote Posted May 10, 2012 Posted May 10, 2012 How do you migrate from a 1TB HDD to a 120GB SSD? The 1TB drive only has 60GB of data on it atm and its the OS drive. I just picked up an SSD and want to migrate that information to the SSD so I can use that as my OS drive instead. Any help would be greatly appreciated Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muchoman1 Posted May 10, 2012 Posted May 10, 2012 How do you migrate from a 1TB HDD to a 120GB SSD? The 1TB drive only has 60GB of data on it atm and its the OS drive. I just picked up an SSD and want to migrate that information to the SSD so I can use that as my OS drive instead. Any help would be greatly appreciated i would do a fresh install on that ssd, seperating all that data will be hard with the drive that full. do you have a 1tb external drive or similar? if so i would copy all your stuff across to that, install win7 on the new ssd, wipe the old 1tb and then copy only what you need off the external onto the 1tb. otherwise odd things can happen when you have windows 7 installed on two drives when both are plugged into the same system Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted May 10, 2012 Posted May 10, 2012 You can use Acronis but it is best top do a fresh install so the drive is indexed properly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted May 10, 2012 Posted May 10, 2012 (edited) C'mon guys. I did a whole review on it. It won't really affect it that much: http://computerhardwareupgrades.blogspot.com/2012/04/debunking-rumor-about-clean-installs-on.html Once garbage collection kicks in, it'll clean up better. Acronis Home True Image is what I use. Edited May 10, 2012 by El_Capitan 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted May 11, 2012 Posted May 11, 2012 You have to run fresh OS installation in your newly bought SSD. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyCallMeGunny Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) EASEUS Partition Master Pro. Clone the drive, just don't include free space in the cloning. It'll clone it as though the entire drive was 60GB. If you pay attention to the options menu: It can be cloned bootable even without free space cloning. Fresh install is ALWAYS best. But if you're in a hurry, that's my recommendation. Edited May 18, 2012 by dragonsdontfly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterfly Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 How do you migrate from a 1TB HDD to a 120GB SSD? The 1TB drive only has 60GB of data on it atm and its the OS drive. I just picked up an SSD and want to migrate that information to the SSD so I can use that as my OS drive instead. Any help would be greatly appreciated Hi, you could directly use 3rd party tool, but inorder to full play the performance of SSD, you need to turn on AHCI in BIOS, but before this you need to change the register key value " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Msahci" to "0" then go ahead...and here I suggset a free software Aomei Partition Assistant Home edition, it provides this feature in wizard which is very easy to handle and it could align partition during the process. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted June 7, 2012 Posted June 7, 2012 C'mon guys. I did a whole review on it. It won't really affect it that much: http://computerhardwareupgrades.blogspot.com/2012/04/debunking-rumor-about-clean-installs-on.html Once garbage collection kicks in, it'll clean up better. Acronis Home True Image is what I use. I use the free version with the mandatory features (Seagate Discwizard) and have cloned my VelociRaptor (300GB) to my current Vertex 2 120GB and had no problems what so ever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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