So I bought an ultrabook a few months ago and it has a 500gb HDD. Last week I bought a 120gb Sandisk SSD from Tigerdirect. I have tried everything to clone my current drive to the SSD but it seems impossible. I bought a cloning adapter and software and it still doesn't work because the drive is so much smaller than my 500gb HDD.
I also tried to run backups off my external hard drives and it errors telling me that there are no drivers found.
I also tried using my 3.5" 1tb Western Digital with the cloning adapter I bought but it will not recognize it. Maybe because I'm dealing with 2.5" drives instead of 3.5". I thought if it would have worked that way, then I could have partitioned my 500gb smaller and then cloned it like originally planned and it wouldn't have been "bigger" than my destination drive.
This seems like too much work to upgrade to a new drive. I'm a techie guy but this one has me running out of patience.
Anybody had this same scenario? I don't really want to start fresh because the laptop is a month old and it has some apps/programs that aren't going to come on a fresh copy of Windows 8.
I also tried to run backups off my external hard drives and it errors telling me that there are no drivers found.
I also tried using my 3.5" 1tb Western Digital with the cloning adapter I bought but it will not recognize it. Maybe because I'm dealing with 2.5" drives instead of 3.5". I thought if it would have worked that way, then I could have partitioned my 500gb smaller and then cloned it like originally planned and it wouldn't have been "bigger" than my destination drive.
This seems like too much work to upgrade to a new drive. I'm a techie guy but this one has me running out of patience.
Anybody had this same scenario? I don't really want to start fresh because the laptop is a month old and it has some apps/programs that aren't going to come on a fresh copy of Windows 8.