Cloning 500gb HDD(109gb available of 465gb) to Fresh 120gb SSD

[kikolot99]

Hi! I'm new to tom's hardware and i would like to ask how can i move my OS to my fresh new 120gb ssd. I already initialized it. All answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

[USAFRet]

Hi! I'm new to tom's hardware and i would like to ask how can i move my OS to my fresh new 120gb ssd. I already initialized it. All answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

To clone into a 120GB drive, your actual consumed space on the source drive must be below 85GB or so.

Actual consumed space.
You can't clone "only the OS".

 

[kikolot99]

Hi! I'm new to tom's hardware and i would like to ask how can i move my OS to my fresh new 120gb ssd. I already initialized it. All answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

To clone into a 120GB drive, your actual consumed space on the source drive must be below 85GB or so.

Actual consumed space.
You can't clone "only the OS".

Follow up question; My Drive C: isn't partitioned and I only want to move my windows 8.1 operating system to the ssd. Is there any way to do this?

 

[USAFRet]

Hi! I'm new to tom's hardware and i would like to ask how can i move my OS to my fresh new 120gb ssd. I already initialized it. All answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

To clone into a 120GB drive, your actual consumed space on the source drive must be below 85GB or so.

Actual consumed space.
You can't clone "only the OS".

Follow up question; My Drive C: isn't partitioned and I only want to move my windows 8.1 operating system to the ssd. Is there any way to do this?

Move only the OS?
Unfortunately, no. There is no function or application for that.

 

[kikolot99]

Hi! I'm new to tom's hardware and i would like to ask how can i move my OS to my fresh new 120gb ssd. I already initialized it. All answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

To clone into a 120GB drive, your actual consumed space on the source drive must be below 85GB or so.

Actual consumed space.
You can't clone "only the OS".

Follow up question; My Drive C: isn't partitioned and I only want to move my windows 8.1 operating system to the ssd. Is there any way to do this?

Move only the OS?
Unfortunately, no. There is no function or application for that.

Oh okay, so my only option would be?

 

[USAFRet]

Oh okay, so my only option would be?

A fresh install on the SSD.
This requires a fresh install of all your applications and drivers as well.

Do you have the license key for your OS?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Oh okay, so my only option would be?

Getting 500GB SSD instead.

 

[kikolot99]

Oh okay, so my only option would be?

A fresh install on the SSD.
This requires a fresh install of all your applications and drivers as well.

Do you have the license key for your OS?

I do still have it yes. A tedious task but thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'll do it ASAP.