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royaltiger · 09-05-2011, 14:32

Finally purchased an SSD for main PC to replace hard drive, the SSD is 120 GB in size and it will replace a 300GB hard drive of which only 74GB is used. I understand that to transfer an image both drives should be of the same size otherwise errors occur. So i've tried to reduce my volume but the smallest it will shrink to is 152GB and theoretically it needs to drop to 120GB to transfer with no faults or errors, how do I overcome this problem. Do I have to uninstall programs, am I better off doing a clean install, is there a simple way of getting this to work, any ideas greatly appreciated.

09-05-2011, 14:32	#1
royaltiger Inactive Join Date: Nov 2005 Services: 50mb Broadband Ambit VMNG300 modem, Tivo, V+TVDrive Extra Large and NTL phone, Virgin mobile Posts: 689	Transfer system image from Hard Drive to SSD Finally purchased an SSD for main PC to replace hard drive, the SSD is 120 GB in size and it will replace a 300GB hard drive of which only 74GB is used. I understand that to transfer an image both drives should be of the same size otherwise errors occur. So i've tried to reduce my volume but the smallest it will shrink to is 152GB and theoretically it needs to drop to 120GB to transfer with no faults or errors, how do I overcome this problem. Do I have to uninstall programs, am I better off doing a clean install, is there a simple way of getting this to work, any ideas greatly appreciated.