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Can TIH2011 be used to transfer a Windows 7 installation from a HDD to a smaller SSD?

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I have a Windows 7 Pro installation on a 150GB HDD, of which I've used 80GB. Can I use TIH2011 (possibly with the Plus Pack) to transfer this installation to a 120GB SSD? Any caveats?

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Take a complete backup of your current disk (all partitions, including the system reserved, any OEM/recovery partition).
Remove the disk, put the SSD at the same spot
Boot the computer on the Acronis recovery CD
Choose Restore, browse to your backup
Restore the partitions in the same order they were on the other disk, one by one. No need to reboot inbetween.
The new destination of each partition is your SSD.
Mark the system reserved partition primary active if you have one and it was active.
Before the first partition, leave a 1MB offset.
Do not resize any partition except the c:\system partition or any user partition you have.
Finally, restore the MBR+track0, and the disk signature.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

From "Do not resize any partition except the c:\system partition or any user partition you have." I take it that I can indeed move my 150GB (80GB used) partition to a 120GB SSD, by resizing the C:\system partition at the destination?

Most likely you can but TI sometimes balks. You might want to do a disk check for errors and also do a defrag before creating the backup file to be used. Be sure the backup is a full backup to include all partitions.
For errors:
From a command prompt.
CHKDSK X: /R (where X is the actual drive letter of the partition being checked.)

Yes.
If you have user content or programs that you don't want on the SSD (to reduce the 80GB size further), you can do the changes on the old disk or on the new disk.