I currently have a 1.5tb HDD, i bought a 500gb samsung evo 860 evo SSD for my OS to improve boot times. The issue im having is on the samsung and aomei partition software its saying i require 744.3gb of space? I'm running windows 10 and i was sure an OS is around 75gb or required 200gb at a push. Can anyone explain?
[SOLVED] HDD to SSD space issue
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Cloning to a 500GB drive, your actual consumed space MUST be below 400GB.
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You have approx 744GB consumed on your C drive.
Going into a 500GB drive, that needs to be below 400GB for a clone operation.
The only things you can leave off are things like Doc/Music/Video. And only in the Samsung Data Migration tool.
However, I've found that leaving those off can have other weird consequences, mostly regarding location.
Going into a 500GB drive, that needs to be below 400GB for a clone operation.
The only things you can leave off are things like Doc/Music/Video. And only in the Samsung Data Migration tool.
However, I've found that leaving those off can have other weird consequences, mostly regarding location.
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You'd need to leave off ~350GB of data for this clone operation.
744GB down to under 400GB.
You can use the HDD for 'storage', but in the clone operation, there is far more than just 'Windows' that gets moved.
Install and run either WinDirStat, or WizTree.
Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question. The C drive.
Post a screencap here.
We can do a little analysis on what is in there.
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You can, but right now you only have 1 drive and everything is the C drive. Without having at least 744GB free space on the SSD you will not be able to clone to the SSD.
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Yes you will need to free up space. Moving music, videos, pictures to an external hdd and deleting Steam might free up enough space.
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Getting that data space down to 400GB leaves basically zero free space to anything more on that 500GB drive. It starts out as being "full".
Given that longevity of the install and amount of data that needs to be shuffled, I'd suggest just a clean install on the new drive rather than a clone.
Start fresh on the new drive.
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You will want to backup the files that you want to save. Find your Product Key using this tool http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html and write it down. Download the Media Creation tool from MS https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and create a bootable USB from it. Boot your computer to the USB stick and use the Custom Install to install Windows on the the SSD. Since everything should be backed up, you can delete the partitions from the HDD all at the same time, just be sure to choose the SSD for install.
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Not a "formatted external HDD", but rather an 8GB flash drive, using the MediaCreation tool.
Read through this a time or two:
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