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I am wanting to just clone windows 7 to my new SSD while keeping my 1T HDD for storage.  Is it possible to clone just the OS and nothing else since my SSD is only 240G?

 

 

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A clone copies the entire disk.  You would need to do a backup and restore.  During backup, you can select the entire disk, or certain paritions.  However, if all your data is on C: drive, then no, neither option will do what you want.  You would have to do a backup and could "exclude" directories. 

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#3488.html

 

any idea what directories I need to include in the backup in order to get my operating system (win 7) to work properly?

 

Matt, how much of your current 1TB HDD drive is actually used?

If you have very larger user folders / documents / pictures / videos etc, then you could move these folders or their contents to another drive (internal or external) so that the size of your actual Windows 7 OS and Programs would fit comfortably within your new 240GB SSD drive.

You can relocate your user folders to a different drive than C: or else you can create these user folders on the second drive and then include them in your libraries.

You should allow around 50GB of free space on your SSD drive if possible, but hopefully you would have much more than this with just the OS & Programs on the drive.

Acronis Clone can clone from your 1TB HDD to your 240GB SSD providing that the used space is less than the capacity of the target drive, or as Rob advised, you can use Backup and Restore to achieve the same.

My friends,

I thank you for all of your help and suggestions and I have good news!

My system, an old HP Pavillion, had a factory set D: drive as a recovery partition.  I went into Acronis and cloned disk excluding C: and system, in other words I just cloned the recovery partition.  I also verified that the partitions were set up with enough space in D: for the recovery and system had 100M.  After cloning just that I disconnected the old drive and booted into HP recovery and it did a clean install to the new solid state drive. 

Again, thank you for your help and I hope this post pays it forward to the next guy with the same problem!

Happy trails my friends!