- #Cloning hard drive windows 7 to ssd how to#
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- #Cloning hard drive windows 7 to ssd plus#
First use GParted live to resize and move the partitions in the source disk, and make all partitions to be equal to or smaller than the size of that in the destination disk.For older version it does not always work. Method 1: If you are sure the used data blocks on the source disk are within the disk boundary of destination one, yes, it's possible to make that with the options "-k1" and "-icds" enabled in the expert mode.This is always a challenge to Clonezilla because it's block-based tool, not file-based one. Is that possible I can restore to smaller HDD when the image was taken from bigger one? Or to clone a larger disk to a smaller one?
Read the following Question and Answer taken from the "FAQ/Q&A for DRBL and Clonezilla" web page: However, the good news is that, once you have prevailed with the setup procedures, Clonezilla actually works flawlessly.įinally, be prepared to use a Windows Recovery Disk to reset the MBR (since Windows seems to object to partitions being moved around) and perhaps also Rescatux ( ) to re-establish the GRUB menu after Windows "thinks" it is back in control.Ĭlonezilla allows you to fit the drive data to a smaller drive if there is enough space. I have never seen so many error/warning messages and had to fight my way through multiple text-based menu screens. Replacing A Disk With A Smaller One Using Clonezilla Liveįor me, the "foreign language" came in the form of Clonezilla's interface.
#Cloning hard drive windows 7 to ssd how to#
Regarding the use of Clonezilla and "the documentation for it quite frankly seems a bit like a foreign language", have you seen the following two references? Both indicate how to resize the HD partitions, and copy the reduced-size partitions to the smaller SSD. Since you are moving from a large HD to a smaller SSD, you will need to copy partitions rather than "clone" the original hard drive. So, put simply, is there any way I can exactly clone this HDD to an SSD without a massive headache? Also, if it matters, I'll probably be using an external hard drive case (as recommended in online tutorials) to externally attach the SSD to my laptop during the cloning process due to the lack of two hard drive slots in the machine. I've seen CloneZilla referenced before, but I'm not all too experienced and the documentation for it quite frankly seems a bit like a foreign language to me. from my HDD to my SSD and I'm not quite sure how to do this. The problem is, I want to exactly migrate my files, partitions, OSes, MBR, etc. In total, my HDD only has about 150GB of files on it so it should fit comfortably on the SSD. It also contains not-so-important files for bloatware installation.
For example, it allows me to use OneKeyRecovery for a quick factory recovery if absolutely necessary, not sure if that'll work on an SSD.
#Cloning hard drive windows 7 to ssd drivers#
This is an annoying partition that Lenovo created to store some drivers and files that I might need later on. sda6 is, of course, the swap partition which I only need for hibernation (6GB of RAM). sda5 contains my documents and all of the files I use on Ubuntu, and (as far as I know) the system files for Ubuntu itself (it's the partition I created when prompted by the Live-DVD installer). I don't use it on my Ubuntu installation, except it is the boot partition and thus has grub on it.
This partition is the C:/ drive on my Windows installation.
#Cloning hard drive windows 7 to ssd plus#
Plus it also appears to be a major pain to remove anyways) /dev/sda2 (NTFS) 116.35 out of 339.06 GB used (boot) (edit it turns out it is a partition for Windows recovery files in the event of OS corruption, so I don't want to remove it. Maybe for Windows 7 system files? I'm hesitant to mess with it. I'm honestly not sure what this partition is for. I am, of course, able to modify it if necessary. GParted reports the following partition setup on my HDD. I'm planning on replacing my laptop's HDD with a 256GB SSD, but I have a dual-boot (12.04 and Windows 7) setup and I'd like to be able to directly migrate Ubuntu over without having to reinstall and lose all of my settings.