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Rikkitic

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#227441 7-Jan-2018 13:26
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I am cloning my laptop hard drive on to a smaller SSD using Macrium Reflect. I notice other cloning software has a special tab for cloning the OS to SSD. With Macrium it looks like a simple copy operation (I have to do it that way to reduce the partition size). Do I have to do anything special to ensure correct performance of the SSD after the clone is complete? My laptop has a modern 'BIOS' (UEFI).

 

 




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  #1931783 7-Jan-2018 17:20
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A general philosophical observation here. Windows always seems to want to make everything, even the simplest procedures, as complicated and roundabout as possible. I have been jumping through unnecessary Microsoft hoops for years. I am old. I am tired of it. I don't want to play software games anymore. I just want to put something together and have it work. I think that's called plug n play. 

 

I don't want to do a fresh install. I don't want to spend days searching for the installation files of obscure programmes I rely on and fiddling with drivers and restoring different data files and all the other crap Windows throws at you and then spend more days trying to figure out why things don't work. The whole point of cloning the drive is so I don't have to do a fresh install.

 

That aside, I have now finished and the cloned(!) SSD drive is installed and working, at least for the moment. If it has a heart attack because it isn't being trimmed or some other damned thing then I will yank it out again and put the other one back. I am keeping the old one in reserve just  in case. My question was if there is anything I can or should do to avoid any problems that might arise from this. If there isn't, then that is the end of the matter.

 

Macrium Reflect is a truly great piece of software, by the way, which just goes to show that such things are possible. The way to shrink a partition is just to copy and paste everything you can, and when you run out of space on the new drive, you can click on any partition with extra space on it and precisely adjust the size down to whatever you need to fit the other partitions on. For someone who remembers the nightmare early days of 20 megabyte hard drives, and the problems involved in manipulating the partitions on those, this is nothing short of brilliant.

 

 

 

 

 

 




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