Timeline for Free way to clone HDD to SSD?
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| Feb 18, 2021 at 15:40 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes |
Didn't get this to work even after shrinking the source partitions, and of course the -icds expert flag.
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| Mar 18, 2017 at 2:27 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2016 at 8:00 | comment | added | chirale | I've tried successfully Clonezilla too, this is the right free/open source tool to do the job. However if the source disk is greater than the target disk you have to use the -icds advanced parameter (Expert mode) but first of all you have to shrink partitions with a tool like GParted in order to fit the destination disk. Keep on hand a Windows 7 install disk to fix boot issue if needed. Here a comprehensive howto | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 6:46 | comment | added | Cwt | My default tool for any hard-disk update. Have used it I think more than 5 times. Works flawlessly. | |
| Oct 19, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | localhost | I have used Clonezilla to do exactly this with success. From a large HDD with a fair bit of free space to a smaller SSD. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 8:22 | history | edited | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2010 at 11:41 | history | answered | Joakim Elofsson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |