Migrating large hard drive to small SSD

[JackNelson]

I currently have a 250GB HDD as my C: drive and just got my SSD today. The SSD is only 64GBs and my C: drive is only 30.5GBs I was just about to use EaseUS to migrate the drive but read that the C: drive needs to be equal or smaller than the new drive. This is referring to the amount of storage currently on the drive correct?

 

[GhislainG]

It should work as long as the total storage on the HDD is less than the size of the SSD.

 

[jsmithepa]

As long as this EaseUS thing copies thing INTELLIGENTLY and not a dumb cloner.

 

[USAFRet]

I currently have a 250GB HDD as my C: drive and just got my SSD today. The SSD is only 64GBs and my C: drive is only 30.5GBs I was just about to use EaseUS to migrate the drive but read that the C: drive needs to be equal or smaller than the new drive. This is referring to the amount of storage currently on the drive correct?

1. A 64GB SSD is right on the edge of 'too small' for the OS.

2. Your existing used space must be smaller than that drive.
What is telling you it is only 30.5GB? That is awfully small and unusual for an existing OS install.

 

[GhislainG]

It depends on what's installed; I have a couple systems that use 30 GB or less.

 

[USAFRet]

It depends on what's installed; I have a couple systems that use 30 GB or less.

Yes, that is why I said 'right on the edge'.

 

[GhislainG]

It depends on what's installed; I have a couple systems that use 30 GB or less.

Yes, that is why I said 'right on the edge'.

I agree that 64 GB is very small.