Cloning hdd onto a ssd question

[Krixus]

Anyone happen to know if the both drives must be the same size (as in total storage)? I continue to have an issue with my PC hard drive causing/contributing to severe FPS drops while gaming. My current hdd is 250 gb and would like to save money on a smaller ssd, also I no longer have the original copy of my OS to put on my would be new sdd.

[Nellah]

I've cloned hard drives onto smaller SSDs quite a few times. Most utilities, including those bundled with SSDs, handle partition shrinking automatically; you may have to massage the partition a bit by shutting off pagefile and/or defragmenting with another PC / with a live USB boot to move stuck system files first if the utility can't manage on its own.

[Denpepe]

As long as the amount of data fits on it, it should be fine, I would not advise to get an SSD smaller then 250GB though the smaller ones fill up pretty fast.

[the boar]

cloning my 250gb mac drive to a 120gb ssd was a nightmare.. and has kinda resulted in the ssd being unable to be further partitioned using diskutility.

but! on windows it was super duper easy, so unless you are doing this on a mac, you should be good.

[moremana]

As long as the amount of data fits on it, it should be fine, I would not advise to get an SSD smaller then 250GB though the smaller ones fill up pretty fast.

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Acronis ftw.

Most ssd's come with cloning software, I dont know which one your getting or have gotten, but if you have a seagate or a wd mechanical in there for storage and backups they have a free version of Acronis you can use.

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