7 to ssd from old hard drive

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whooker

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I have a new 120 gb ssd and and an old emachine with 150 gb drive. Trying to load windows 7 (64 bit) only on to new ssd seemed like it might be fairly straightforward, but using two free partition programs that have a "migrate OS only" option I am getting the message that the ssd doesn't have enough capacity. I must be missing something??
 
You can't clone a 150 gb drive to a 120 gb drive. You would have shrink the OS partition down on the 150 to less then 120 to get it to fit on the 120.
 
so to do that I need to move programs and / or data off the disc drive and then partition the disc drive?
drive?
 
How much of the 150 gb drive is actually being used? All you need to do is shrink that partition down to say 110gb to be able to clone it to the 120gb drive.
 
whooker said:
I have a new 120 gb ssd and and an old emachine with 150 gb drive. Trying to load windows 7 (64 bit) only on to new ssd seemed like it might be fairly straightforward, but using two free partition programs that have a "migrate OS only" option I am getting the message that the ssd doesn't have enough capacity. I must be missing something??
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Usually as long as your 120 GB SSD is big enough for the used space on the 150 GB drive, you can successfully migrate os to ssd without getting the message that the ssd doesn't have enough capacity. You can slim your 150GB drive by removing data to another storage device and try again. If that still fails, I suggest you try another software. Personally, I like to recommend you AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, a freeware that can migrate OS to SSD without a scratch.
 
Any reason you're avoiding a fresh format of Windows onto the SSD? If the system came with a 160 GB drive it's probably been a looooooooong time on that installation.
 
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