hdd ssd swap

[clahman]

hi. i have a 128gb ssd which would be good if i could get it in my laptop. lap top is a hp pavilion.
now i'm really not sure what the best way to go about this is, i already tried with a 64 gb ssd and clone software. said there was not enough room for the 140gb hdd which has about 20gb of used space.
i was thinking the problem may be in the pic.... as you can see drives d/: and f/:,,,are they partitioned on to the hdd,,,i'll be trying it out tomorrow anyway, but let me know if you know better, sort of.

 

[johnb35]

You need to shrink the C partition below 128 gb in order for it to be cloned to the 128gb ssd drive.

 

[clahman]

You need to shrink the C partition below 128 gb in order for it to be cloned to the 128gb ssd drive.

hi. well when i was doing this for my desktop i was able to get an 80gb hdd shrunk down to fit on the 64gb ssd. this was using the cloning software.
could it be that now i changed the ssd to 128gb, the cloning software can shrink the hdd to fit. or is there something i need to do to shrink it. thanks,,,

 

[johnb35]

Go into disk management and right click on the c parition and click on shrink volume to reduce it below 128gb.

 

[inferno14]

but why would u want to shrink it?

 

[funkysnair]

but why would u want to shrink it?

so it fits?

 

[inferno14]

wont it compromise the hdd space? why wont the laptop except the hdd as it is? im sorry for asking stupid questions, im new at this.

 

[clahman]

well that was quite a lot of work in the end, what with updating sp2 and all. i think also in the end that i might have got away without shrinking thee volome, which i did by about 25gb . any way, ran some benchmarks before and after and it's not too impressive. hdtune maxs out at 108mb/s and nowhere near 200, which makes me think the laptop is bottlenecked somewhere. it is much more pleasant to use now though, it behaves like a computer should, and not something else. so thanks again,,,gordon.

 

[clahman]

wont it compromise the hdd space? why wont the laptop except the hdd as it is? im sorry for asking stupid questions, im new at this.

i think that transferring the 149 gb (20gb used) data to a 64gb ssd was toooo much for the system, possibly coupled by the fact that the laptop has a partition of sorts for recovery. only a guess. acronis true image was the name of the cloning software.

 

[inferno14]

i still dont get it. and can any one teach me how to partition a hard drive to back my files up?