Can I Clone Larger HDD to Smaller SSD in Windows Computer

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“My computer runs extremely slow now. And I bought a 250GB SSD last week because my friend told me the Windows runs faster on SSD. But the whole HDD is much larger than my SSD. Can I clone larger HDD to smaller SSD?”

SSD is known for its fast writing and reading speed so that most people prefer to upgrade the hard drive to SSD. But SSD is in smaller capacity than that of HDD. When it comes to cloning larger HDD to smaller SSD, I think, it is difficult to do it as SSD can not hold all the data from HDD unless you delete a great number of data or delete the volume in HDD.

can I clone larger HDD to smaller SSD


Why not clone only the Windows from larger HDD to Smaller SSD

As you want to improve the computer performance, cloning Windows OS to SSD can help you to achieve that. It will save your effort of reinstalling the operating system and applications. On the one hand, you can solve the computer running slow issue. On the other hand, other data can be saved stably on the HDD. Thus, why not clone only the Windows from HDD to smaller SSD and keep both hard drives on the computer?

Preparations:

Before cloning, you need to do some preparations to ensure the successful cloning.

1. Download Windows cloning tool.

iSunshare CloneGo, developed with the Windows OS clone, backup and restore feature, enables people to copy the Windows system partition without damaging either device. You can apply it to upgrade the hard drive to SSD on all Windows system based computers.

2. Prepare the SSD

First of all, you should make sure that the SSD is large enough to store the Windows system partition—C drive data. Then, you need connect to or install on your computer. If the SSD is new, it is necessary to access Disk Management to initialize it and allocate one simple volume.

How to Clone Windows from Larger HDD to Smaller SSD for free?

With the following tutorial, you can clone the Windows operating system from HDD to a smaller SSD safely. And you should make sure that the actual usage space on the bigger HDD is smaller to the SSD capacity.

Step 1: After installing iSunshare CloneGo on your computer, launch it and select your C drive as the source partition.

select C drive as source partition


Step 2: Select a volume from your SSD as the target partition. And you can select the After Finished option if the system partition is large. Of course, you can also ignore this option.

select SSD volume as the target partition


Step 3: Click “Start” to continue. When the program warns it will erase the SSD data, click “Yes” to begin the cloning.

Start the cloning


Step 4: The cloning is finished. You can change the BIOS boot order and make your computer boot from the SSD.

Conclusion:

With the help of iSunshare CloneGo, you can clone the Windows OS from HDD to SSD successfully. Besides, iSunshare CloneGo allows you to finish some advanced operations, such as clone SSD to larger SSD, backup computer without booting Windows, clone dynamic disk to SSD and so on.

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