How to Clone HDD to Smaller SSD in Windows
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2 January 2018 Senior Product Manager
Summary
Want to optimized the computer disk by replacing HDD with SSD? However, system reinstall makes you hesitate? Now you can clone all data including system to SSD with 3 simple steps. Get full version and try!
Comparing with HDD, SSD gets a better performance on writing/reading data which can help you improve system performance if you make SSD to be your system disk. So, more and more computer users are going to replace the current HDD with SSD which has smaller size. You may ask:
We do not want to reinstall Windows system or transfer data by myself. Can we clone or migrate all data inside the HDD to smaller SSD with some easy and simple way?
Infact, replacing SSD does not mean we have to reinstall whole Windows system. Free disk clone software – Renee Becca can help us transfer all data including Windows system in HDD to SSD in a few simple steps. You can boot from the SSD after clone finished!
Free Disk Cloning Software – Renee Becca
- Clone all data (including system) in HDD to smaller SSD. SSD could used to boot computer after clone finished.
- Support to migrate Windows to SSD only.
- Clone HDD to HDD or SSD to SSD with all data reserved.
- Backup & restore system/disk/folder. Auto backup plans are available.
- Bulid in 5 different auto backup modes, which can fulfill all your needs.
Compatibles with： Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2012/2008/Server 2008
people has downloaded and clone whole HDD to SSD for free!
How to Clone HDD to Smaller SSD For Free
Preparation: Only full version of Renee Becca can make the target disk bootable after clone. If you do not activate Renee Becca, cloned disk can not boot the target computer normally.
Step 1: Launch Renee Becca. Connect target disk to computer. Go to “Clone” function and click “Hard Disk Clone/Clone System Disk”.
Step 2: Select the source HDD and target SSD.
Renee Becca will identify the original disk of your computer automatically. And connected external disk will be marked by symbol like “USB HDD”.
Please check the item of “Make the target disk bootable (System disk only)” if the disk you clone for contains system.
“Copy all sectors” means software will clone data in all sectors even you have deleted but have not been overwritten in the disk. (Please click “+More” button on the bottom-left side to check this.)
Cloned disk should be used in the same computer which the original disk is in.
Step 3: Have a check of the size of partitions in SSD via Virtual View. After assure, just click “Clone”.
Before processing the clone…
Please make sure the size of the target disk is larger or equal to the total space you have used in the original HDD.
Make a full backup for both disks.
Renee Becca will make 4K alignment automatically when cloning disk to SSD, which can improve the performance of SSD.
Renee Becca will first fulfill the used storage of each partition and then divide the rest of free space equally in according to the number of the partitions to each partition in new disk when cloning. Here, we can refer to the following example:
Original disk before clone…
Size of Source disk: 500 GB
Size of used space in total: 56.8 GB
We can get information of each partitions’ used space from the following chart.
Disk with smaller size after clone…
Size of target disk: 120 GB
Free space in total: 62.4 GB
Conditions of 3 partitions after cloned:
*After allocating enough used space of each partition, the rest 62.4 GB will be divided in to 3 parts equally and add to each partition separately.
Step 4: Boot the computer with the new disk after clone.
You can try the following 2 plans to boot from the new disk:
Take off the original disk, connect the new one and boot from the new disk directly.
Change the boot order in BIOS and boot from new disk. (Do not know how to make it? Click here for more. )
* Please make sure the computer can boot from the new disk normally before formatting the original disk.
Want to clone disk without going through system and software restoration process? Then you can find perfect solution here! 100% free Windows 10 disk cloning software helps you make the clone with 4 simple steps! Bootable after clone finished!
