‎Cloning ssd | DELL Technologies

Start a discussion

UNSOLVED

lalitsehgal21

updated

9 years ago

Closed

lalitsehgal21

47 Posts

0

2269

January 25th, 2018 23:00

Cloning ssd

Hello i just bought new alienware 15 r3. its got 1tb ssd and 1 tb hdd.

Since 1TB ssd is boot drive i am losing the extra space and i got a new 512 gb m.2 ssd.

IS THERE ANY WAY TO TRANSFER THE BOOT 1 TB SSD TO NEW SSD INCLUDING RECOVERY SO THAT I CAN USE 1 TB SSD FOR GAMING.

ITS RESOLVED NOW PLS CLOSE THE THREAD

This conversation is no longer open for comments or replies and is no longer visible to community members.

J
jphughan
11 Legend
•
13985 Posts
•
79931 Points
2232
1
Posted January 26th, 2018 09:00
Use an application like Macrium Reflect Free to clone one disk to another. You’ll of course need to resize the source partition(s) to fit the smaller target, but other than that it will work.
I
Ingrid1987
13 Posts
2199
0
Posted February 2nd, 2018 01:00
How much data in size are there in your 1 TB SSD boot drive? Is it partitioned or not? How large is the system drive?

If the 512 SSD is able to store all data in 1TB boot drive, perform an intelligent clone i.e. clone only used space on 1TB boot drive to 512GB target drive.

If the data on 1TB drive is too big to store, make it small by deleting useless files and uninstalling applications that can be easily reinstalled.

Be careful when you choose cloning software because some of them do not support intelligent clone. Maybe you'll find this helpful: Clone Dell hard drive to SSD with secure boot.

BTW, they have free version for disk cloning.