Picked up a 120Gb SSD from Dabas last week for £30

 

(Still on btw or the 240Gb for £50).

 

Will be arriving this week. Can anyone recommend a disk cloning tool to save the horror of doing a full rebuild?

 

All going well I'll use the Tb disk as a store for pictures etc and just have the OS and some other bits and pieces on the SSD.

 

Everything important is already backed up.

I've recently been using a windows tool called reflect. 

 

I didn't use it on a live drive, that is running from the same disk as I was trying to clone. But it reads like it should work. The only snag, which isn't really a snag, more round peg square hole, anyway, in taking a 320Gb, 3partition, to a 250Gb ssd single, I was after the middle bit . I resized the partitions on the 320 to less than 250 ( I had enough space on the 320 partitions ). Also had to move the 'recovery' partition out of the end, so all the 320's partitions were in the 250 range, even though I was only after the middle one.

 

HTH.

Does Ghost still exist?

What file system do you want to clone and do you want to resize?

 

Parted Magic and DD are quite useful, but there are obvious limits.

 

Acronis is good if you're willing to pay.

Therein might be the stinker.

 

It's a single 1Tb disk going to a 120Gb SSD boot disk.

So a straight raw clone won't work.

 

I thnk I've only got about 30Gb of data on it.

Edited 14 September, 201510 yr by Aspman

I think Partition Magic might be able to cope with that?

Another vote for Macrium Reflect here

 

It works quickly, and can even resize the partitions if they're too big to go on the SSD.

A check last night show I was using about 220Gb which was  surprise althought 40Gb of that turned out to be photos.

 

Deleteing a pile of crap cleared out 40Gb but it's still sitting at 180Gb.

 

I've still got about 100Gb I've no idea where it comes from. trying to find if the old Win7 restore is still held somewhere.

 

Looks like I might be in for the long haul for a full install.

Edited 15 September, 201510 yr by Aspman

examine disk with https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ to see where are 100gb hiding

Edited 15 September, 201510 yr by dukedl

examine disk with https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ to see where are 100gb hiding

 

Good call

120 just ain't big enough these days.

 

Bugger!

 

It'll do for the laptop.

A check last night show I was using about 220Gb which was  surprise althought 40Gb of that turned out to be photos.

 

Deleteing a pile of crap cleared out 40Gb but it's still sitting at 180Gb.

 

I've still got about 100Gb I've no idea where it comes from. trying to find if the old Win7 restore is still held somewhere.

 

Looks like I might be in for the long haul for a full install.

 

Probably old Hotfix files, I cleared about 80GB of them out of a friends computer last year., have you tried CCleaner by Piriform?

 

As to 120GB being too small.... My OS drive is a 40GB SSD, everything else is on one of three rust spinners, a fast 500GB for programs and documents, a fast 2TB for AV and photo files and a slow 1TB for document and photo back up

Edited 19 September, 201510 yr by GentleGiant

For once i agree with ian, check out the windows folder and temp in there to see if old crap is kicking around.

Probably old Hotfix files, I cleared about 80GB of them out of a friends computer last year., have you tried CCleaner by Piriform?

 

As to 120GB being too small.... My OS drive is a 40GB SSD, everything else is on one of three rust spinners, a fast 500GB for programs and documents, a fast 2TB for AV and photo files and a slow 1TB for document and photo back up

 

Probably old Hotfix files, I cleared about 80GB of them out of a friends computer last year., have you tried CCleaner by Piriform?

 

As to 120GB being too small.... My OS drive is a 40GB SSD, everything else is on one of three rust spinners, a fast 500GB for programs and documents, a fast 2TB for AV and photo files and a slow 1TB for document and photo back up

 

I've actually done a clean install of Win10 onto the new drive ~ 17Gb.

 

I was really just trying to avoid having to redownload and reconfigure everything for steam. My Skyrim folder was sitting at 50Gb. Just lazyness really.

 

Also the win licensing is a PITA when you change hardware. It's a bit stupid that using legit software is far harder than the pirated stuff.

 

Why can't I just put in my Win7 key. Pretty please? I paid for it and everything. Do you really have to hash my hardware so I need to go through a stand up fight every time I change a bit?

I've actually done a clean install of Win10 onto the new drive ~ 17Gb.

 

I was really just trying to avoid having to redownload and reconfigure everything for steam. My Skyrim folder was sitting at 50Gb. Just lazyness really.

 

Also the win licensing is a PITA when you change hardware. It's a bit stupid that using legit software is far harder than the pirated stuff.

 

Why can't I just put in my Win7 key. Pretty please? I paid for it and everything. Do you really have to hash my hardware so I need to go through a stand up fight every time I change a bit?

 

I know how you feel; I had legit XP licences for all my PCs, but installed TinyXP on them because of the hassles - I was always swapping around hardware and even a change of floppy drive could be enough to trigger a licence warning - and for some reason the auto licence service never seemed to work and I would end up on the phone.

 

I would do the same with Win7, but Tiny7 was never updated after the first couple of releases.

 

If I ever get around to building the new PC, it will be run using Pinguy OS.

I can see me having to put win7 back on to upgrade.

 

Tried MS support but they had directed me to a nonsense place and disconnected before I got anywhere.

Advice on MS own forums -

 

I had the same problem (error 0xC004C003 + general w10 key: *-3V66T) and I was able to solve it: just create a partition of 20gb in your pc, install and activate w8 then use the media creation tool to upgrade to w10 choosing "save nothing", after that the new clean w10 will be activated and you can reboot to the old w10 installation (this one will be automatically activated!) and delete the old partition (and extend the partition where you taken the 20gb used for this trick).

 

Bloody stupid having to do that.