Need help cloning!

[Charles Lalonde]

Hello, I have a 500gb HDD and want to clone it to a 480gb SSD.

I have shrinked the 500 to 418.88gb. So now the drive has 100mb reserved, the 418gb and unallocated 46.78gb partitions.

Can I just proceed to put my clonezilla CD and clone?

 

[USAFRet]

Hello, I have a 500gb HDD and want to clone it to a 480gb SSD.

I have shrinked the 500 to 418.88gb. So now the drive has 100mb reserved, the 418gb and unallocated 46.78gb partitions.

Can I just proceed to put my clonezilla CD and clone?

No!

Do this:
Install Macrium Reflect
Power off
Connect the SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium application
Do what is says, reading carefully
Once it is complete, power off
Disconnect the old drive
Connect the new drive into the same SATA port the old one was in
Power up and see if it boots properly

Assuming it does, success.
Verify operation.
Maybe restart a couple of times, just to be sure it will boot from only the new SSD

Later, once you are satisfied, reconnect the old drive
Wipe it and use as desired.

It reads a lot more complicated than it really is.

 

[USAFRet]

I stopped recommending CloneZilla a couple years ago.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Ok cool. I dont have to un-shrink it (extend). afterwards?

 

[USAFRet]

Ok cool. I dont have to un-shrink it (extend). afterwards?

Nope.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Do I have to format the SSD? I already installed it in the desktop and it looks all set to go.

 

[USAFRet]

Do I have to format the SSD? I already installed it in the desktop and it looks all set to go.

No you do not.
That application should handle it.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Nice thanks man! I'll tell you how it went!

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Oh, should I clone the system reserved partition before? or I can only clone the C:

 

[USAFRet]

Oh, should I clone the system reserved partition before? or I can only clone the C:

Everything, all at once.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Well, I spent hours trying to figure out how I would do this. Finally had the idea of coming back to good old tom's hardware. Then you came along with a super fast answer and fixed everything! I'm so glad this worked out! Thank you my friend!

One last question, now when I have partition C: showing, it is my ssd but I only have 418G total, and also a 99.9 mb partition reserved for system, showing in :computer.

Can I make my 418G back to what it was initially?

 

[Charles Lalonde]

there is 28.15gb unnalocated showing in computer management.

 

[USAFRet]

The 100mb partition needs to be there. Leave it.
In Disk Management, you can probably delete that 28GB unallocated, and extend the C partition into that space.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

When I right click on the unnalocated, I can only click on new simple value and properties.

 

[USAFRet]

When I right click on the unnalocated, I can only click on new simple value and properties.

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Whenever I try to quote you it does not show my message under...

http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Charles_Orlando_Lalonde/Toms_zpsd51g0njk.png

 

[USAFRet]

Whenever I try to quote you it does not show my message under...

http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Charles_Orlando_Lalonde/Toms_zpsd51g0njk.png

OK
Possibly create a Volume in that space, and THEN delete it

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Just goes back to unnalocated

 

[USAFRet]

Just goes back to unnalocated

Right click on the C, and does it let you Extend?

 

[Charles Lalonde]

yes but i think it is at the maximum...

 

[Charles Lalonde]

http://i989.photobucket.com/albums/af11/Charles_Orlando_Lalonde/Toms_zpsgvwwfo4x.png

 

[Charles Lalonde]

Oh my, lol. I just realized that the 28 821 is actually the space I can get from expanding -_- At least I think.

 

[Charles Lalonde]

There we go! yay! Thanks man!