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Clone smaller SSD to larger

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  • 21-07-2016 12:43pm
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    skywanderer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 334 ✭✭


    Built a new rig two months ago and recycled my earlier 5 month old Samsung 250GB SSD from my older machine which had a motherboard failure. I got a great deal on a Samsung 500GB SSD last week in the Amazon Prime sales <€100.

    I don't want to go to the trouble of installing Win7 again plus all the software, drivers and migrating data and emails etc. Ideally I just want to Clone everything across but instead I would then have 500GB of space instead of 250.

    Any ideas, tips or recommendations would be great, don't mind buying a bit of software if I have to.


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    Zith
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    Download the Samsung magician software. It does a great job of cloning and is free (for use with samsung devices at least, not sure about others). It will do exactly what you want and handles the increased size transparently.


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    cherryghost
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    I use Clonezilla under usb boot normally so cloning within a system enviornment is excluded. It can also handle increased size transparency but its probably for more advanced users.


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    Lu Tze
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    cherryghost wrote: »
    I use Clonezilla under usb boot normally so cloning within a system enviornment is excluded. It can also handle increased size transparency but its probably for more advanced users.

    Yeah I have used this previously without fecking the whole thing up, not exactly user friendly but did the job


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    skywanderer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 334 ✭✭skywanderer


    Zith wrote: »
    Download the Samsung magician software. It does a great job of cloning and is free (for use with samsung devices at least, not sure about others). It will do exactly what you want and handles the increased size transparently.

    I ended up using the Samsung Data Migration tool
    http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

    It cloned the 250gb drive with (135gb of Data) to the new 500GB drive in around 20 mins using my USB 3.0 Caddy, it was very fast and efficient. After swapping the hard-drives I then got an error 0xc000000e which I was able to fix using the Windows 7 install disk and "repair". All I had to do then was re-enter my Windows licence and the whole thing took under 45mins.

    Thanks for the help.


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