Cloning a 4TB HD to 500GB SSD
Hello,
I’ve looked through some of the other conversation around cloning HD to SSD, but can find one that fits my question.
I’ve recently cloned a 1TB HD with 180GB of data to a 500GB SSD with out any issues. So then on to another machine, which has a 4TB HD with 280GB of data. I’ve moved around 1TB of documents to another drive, to get the used space to less then 500GB for the new SSD. Unlike my first machine which worked on the automatic setting running the clone directly within Window10, this 2nd machine keeps asking form me to exclude files and never seems to get to a point where it is happy to run the clone.
The SSD has been initialised under Disk Manager, which is all I did with the first machine, no formatting of any sort.
Would anybody have an idea as to how to get round this or am I best now taking a back up of the drive and restoring that to the SSD, as suggested here https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-cyber-protect-home-office-forum/acronis-2021-disc-clone ?
I’m using True Image 2021, Build 39216.
Cheers
Richard


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Steve,
Many thanks for the guidance, I'll look at trying that.
I'm only trying to do it this way to save time rebuilding from scratch, but it might even be the best option anyway. At least I know it good and stable rather than being a little bit of a fudge.
Cheers
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Steve,
Again, thanks for your ideas, but in the end I ended up with a new rebuild of the OS on the SSD.
Richard
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Richard, thanks for the update. Doing a fresh install / rebuild often has other benefits for clearing out lots of accumulated dross!
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