You can't clone 1 TB to a 240 GB drive without some alteration so it is no longer a clone as such. Use Windows 10 install Media (USB key drive or DVD) from MS.ĭon't see any merit in making it complex.

You don't need to, just install Windows 10 on the new SSD drive. I want if possible to avoid making tons of image disks.Ĭlone OS from Larger to Smaller in capacity, any advise and how to would be appreciated. On reading some are saying do this, others are saying the free clone tools see the whole of the larger HDD, partitions included and can't transfer to a smaller SSD due to lack of space.Īnd one bit of logic I read was, look at it this way, you can't shift 10lb of sugar in to an empty 5lb bag. Would it be that easy, using one of the free Clone tools, will any of them allow this. So C drive on the 1TB HDD would be say 225GB in size and the rest of the unused space taken up/created with a new partition/drive character. Would it be a case of shrinking the volume of the existing 1TB drive to a volume space just under the capacity of the smaller, new SSD? Without my friend going to the expense of purchasing commercially available software that will do this, will any of the free cloning tools allow transfer/cloning of a larger HDD to a smaller SSD. Obviously it is just the OS I want to transfer to the new SSD. I want to remove the HDD and replace it with a smaller 240GB SSD, probably a Samsung or Sandisk variant but that's not a given, but it will be 240GB in size, then convert the 1TB drive in to an external backup drive.īefore writing this thread, I did a fair amount of reading but still not sure if it is possible to transfer/clone larger HDD to smaller SSD. I have a friends HP Pavilion 15 Laptop, with a 1TB HDD, the only thing on it is the Win 10CU operating system, ( using about 30GB ), the rest is free space, there are no other partitions.

Macrium reflect cloning to smaller ssd