So my wife has an older HP Pavilion M7. I have been upgrading it for her to give it some new life. I already did RAM and upgrade from Windows 7 to 10.
She has a 1 TB HDD in it. I bought her a 250GB SSD. The HDD has only about 45 GB used as I wiped it clean to do Windows 10 from 7. I tried shrinking it down to go onto the new drive but I can only shrink it down to about 400 GB, even after a defrag. Obviously I need to make it smaller to clone it.
I tried to do a fresh Windows 10 install on it using boot media but it won't pick up the drive. I have already intialized it and it has a drive letter from being connected by USB, but when I pull the old HHD out and put the SSD in Windows Installer won't pick it up.
How do I shrink it more so I can clone, or alternatively how can I get the Windows Installer to give me a clean install? It only gives me upgrade option which won't work.
She has a 1 TB HDD in it. I bought her a 250GB SSD. The HDD has only about 45 GB used as I wiped it clean to do Windows 10 from 7. I tried shrinking it down to go onto the new drive but I can only shrink it down to about 400 GB, even after a defrag. Obviously I need to make it smaller to clone it.
I tried to do a fresh Windows 10 install on it using boot media but it won't pick up the drive. I have already intialized it and it has a drive letter from being connected by USB, but when I pull the old HHD out and put the SSD in Windows Installer won't pick it up.
How do I shrink it more so I can clone, or alternatively how can I get the Windows Installer to give me a clean install? It only gives me upgrade option which won't work.