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slinga wrote: »

I meant to add that 200Gb of the 300Gb used space is in fact video and pictures. These would be left on the HDD.

So 100Gb of apps should fit onto a 250Gb SSD.

That isn’t how cloning works, it copies everything on the original drive, warts and all. You need to remove the images/video before cloning unless you want to use a larger SSD.

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agrinnall wrote: »

You can clone the content of your HDD onto the SSD (although I'm not sure if it's possible if the HDD is bigger than the SSD).

I recently cloned a 2TB HDD to a 1TB SSD, using the Crucial cloning software (Acronis IIRC). I can confirm that it is capable of cloning to a smaller disk, as long as the space used will fit on the smaller disk.

letsbehonest

I added a samsung ssd to my 6 year old desktop, cloned the existing onto the ssd using samsungs easy to use software,I then us the old hdd as storage. As said above use a bigger ssd capacity than the existing hdd. There is a lot of info vids on you tube, it's quite easy to do.