I have just bought a staggering fast SSD from Intel - but their migration software didn’t allow me to clone over to the SSD because it simply is smaller than the HDD…even if the space used is MUCH less! :mad:
And I have no clue how to get my OS, registry and basically all my pre-installed stuff to work when I move over to the SSD. Does anybody have experience with migrating all the necessary files to make sure the PC is just like before, but with the OS on a SSD?
I have tried several times by using Window’s backup feature, but I don’t have enough space it says to do the image (although I have 100 gigs available on a partition). SO I rather start from scratch again and do the whole process more thoroughly - with anyone of your help, if possible.
I used Acronis when I worked in server support a few years back, very good product. I now use their home version to backup and restore. I beleive this latest version handles restoring back to different hardware.
The Acronis program asks me the source disk (the OS) - I select it
Next step is telling it what the target/destination disk is - the SSD
It warns me if you want to proceed due to format - I click yes
Error message pops up, telling me it cannot be done becaause source disk is bigger than target disk.
But in the program I cant click or select a partition, only the DISKS! So even if I have the smaller partition, I cant seem to select it - this is some included freeware of Acronis migration software that came with the SSD.
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