Upgrading 500gb HDD to 240gb SSD

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I am trying to upgrade my dell laptop 500gb HDD to a 240gb SSD.

I have never done this before so am hoping others with more knowledge than I can help me.

I've read Acronis is the best tool to use clone the hard drive.

The question I have is how Acronis would resize the existing partitions. The 500gb HDD is what came from dell. I do not have much on it as it's fairly new. The HDD has 2 partitions on it as follows:

OSDisk (C:) 452.09gb NTFS
Recovery (D:) 13.67gb NTFS

The SSD is only 240gb. Brand new.

Question: Considering the smaller size of the SSD, how does Acronis resize the 2 partitions? I want to keep the Recovery (D:) partition the same at it's current size and have Acronis resize the OSDisk (C:) partition to take account of the smaller size of the SSD.

I am assuming that without doing something, the 2 partitions would be resized proportionately for the smaller size of the SSD?

I hope that was clear on what my concern is. I don't really know enough about this to know whether what I am asking makes sense.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Gio, 08/09/2012 - 19:29
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Follow the instructions here:

- Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition is on the system disk (right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management)

- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference

- Uninstall any program you don't want on the SSD (eg: games, ). You can leave content and move it later out of the SSD.

- Do a full backup of your current disk. Include all partitions, even the hidden ones (no need to use the sector by sector setting)

- Put your SSD at the same spot at your current disk. Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.

- Boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD

- Restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk

- Leave a 1MB space before the first partition (maybe system reserved?)

- Mark the correct partition active (maybe system reserved?)

- Leave the drive letter change option alone

- Do not resize any partition except the C:\system partition or any partition you created and want on the SSD

- Make sure that each partition has a size that is a whole number of MB (doesn't matter for the last partition)

- No need to reboot inbetween partition restores

- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature

That's it.

Reboot on your new SSD. Then, if you want to use your old disk, put it back in the computer, reboot. Delete whatever you want, etc.
You have some tweaks to optimize your SSD:
- disable automatic defragmentation of that disk
- optionally, disable indexing on the disk (not a big deal)
- disable the superfetch service, and prefetch
- leave the page file on the SSD
- verify that TRIM is activated http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows…
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Pat

Wanted to thank you again for your help. Got the new computer and did the backup and restore and everything went wellaand is working fine. Thanks

Larry

Dom, 11/04/2012 - 16:12