does software allow cloning from a bigger HDD to a smaller SSD
1771358
Yes, provided the amout of data to be cloned/transferred from the HDD does not exceed the capacity of your SSD.
1551814
The cloning software makes an identical copy of your old hard drive. If Windows 7, or Office, or anything else worked before you installed the SSD, it will operate perfectly afterwards. The "computer" does not see anything different. Just clone your hard drive which has Windows installed. And when it is finished, install the SSD. Then, button up your computer and it will boot up without your needing to do anything.Good luckJohn
419584
Pretty much out of the question. You could put a larger SSD in place of the original. The USB 3 port gives excellent performance with a compatible external drive.
1508983
The Vantec NexStar USB can clone one drive to the next and works really well as long as you have the same size drives or a smaller first drive and larger second drive.
1604644
yes, provided the image being cloned is the same machine is the same machine it will be the same. EX: dell d600 clone to ssd, d600 cloned drive to a d600. May work with some other machines but there will be missing drivers
402312
I'm sure it can be, but it won't "mirror" the data back over. You will need to either a) pull the HDD out, insert larger HDD, and use an empty HDD transfer case to move it back over, or B) move data to an external device, insert larger HDD, then transfer data back.Mirroring only works with like devices due to copying of the partitions and tables, technically it can be done but then your new HDD will ONLY show the size of the original HDD and have wasted the remaining space. Hope this helps.
1604643
Yes. The clone will be identical to the original. SSD behave the same as regular hard drive (although much faster)
1997155
Here is what I had to do. Format the SSD, so it will be recognized as a drive with a new drive letter. Don' forget, cloning will bring over your present operating system as well, so upgrade it first, if you want a new one.Both Samsung and Seagate have included software. Be sure only to use USB 2.0. bE ADVISED IF YOU HAVE A FAIRLY NEW MB, CONTACT THE MB Co. which SATA CONNECTIONS (PORTS) TO USE. SOME ARE TOO SLOW.
2153141
I do believe you can. I'm a Mac user so I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drives and it worked with that. I do use PCs as well, and there are several cloning programs that can do the same thing, I just can't remember them as I'm here at work. I did use one of them to clone my desktop drive to an SSD drive and it worked perfectly.
1551812
Yes, it essentially turns the new drive into the old one. I did this on a Acer netbook and it worked fine after swapping to the cloned drive.
1236342
It depends in which software that you use, I believe there is some paid software that can clone only the OS but as always it is recommended to just reinstall straight onto the SSD
1759612
No, it does not. I also tried a 3rd party HDD-to-SSD software migration tool yet it lacked adequate features to handle my situation.
689912
Yes you can. I used this to upgrade from a SATA 128GB SSD to a 256GB SSD. You install the software, connect the new target SATA drive with the adapter, select the partition to copy and let it run. Took me 45 minutes to do this. I then shut down my PC, swapped drives and restarted the PC and I was back in business.
670976
I don't know about the particular software that you mention, but I used Acronis to clone the 500 Gb hard drive that came with the notebook computer to clone it (the O.S. and drivers, more specifically) to the my new SanDisk SSD. Once I swapped out the drives in the drive bay, it worked identically. Except for, of course, the fact that the boot time was much faster, as well as my engineering programs that practically doubled in speed. I did use a desktop computer with 3 SATA drives, the first with the O.S. to boot to that had Acronis loaded, and the next two, the 500 Gb HDD and the 256 Gb SSD, to do the cloning.
750972
Hook up the SSD to the PC. Restart the PC with the CD that came with it in the CD drive and boot from it. Start the cloning software and clone your current HD to the SSD. Unplug/remove the old drive or change setting in BIOS to tell the PC to boot from the SSD if you want to keep the old drive installed.
1253312
The samsung drive includes a software for cloning your current HDD. But before you clone it you have to make sure everything you are copying is under 100 GB, for the EVO SDD to run at full speed it has to have ~20% free space. There are two programs on an install disk with pretty straight forward instructions. As long as you follow the programs instructions you'll be fine.
1551811
software-ul de clonare,transfera tot ce ai pe hdd si instaleaza pe ssd!nimic in plus sau minus!cloning software, transfer all of the hdd and install the ssd!nothing more or less!