Notebooks & Netbooks

[michail71]

I'm looking to see if anyone has had success clonning the original hard drive to a Samsung 840 SSD drive?  Most likely I will get the 840 Pro 256GB drive.

The 2.5" drives have a little bit better performance specs over the mSATA so I figured I'd go with the SATA.  Also, I don't want to be powering any magnetic drives.

Amazon has a USB3 to SATA adapter that looks like it works with the drive from the reviews I have read.  What I'm wondering is if the Samsung cloning software will work through this setup.  Option 2 would be to put both drives in my desktop and clone from there. 

[brummyfan2]

I haven't used Samsung utility but I can suggest you another option, I use Macrium reflect(free) or any other, there are many like Acronis, AOMEI backupper,  create a recovery USB stick (Win PE), backup the original HDD to another external HDD (in your case, create a partition in your PC), install your new SSD in the laptop, boot with the recovery USB and recover the earlier backup from your HDD in PC.

I prefer this method as I don't need to worry about misalignment, you choose whatever method you prefer as all your intended methods are good. Samsung utility may be a straightforward as it's the manufacturers' product.

[greg1]

The 1TB drive in my Acer R7 was a Western Digital, so I was able to use Acronis True Image WD Edition available free from the Western Digital web site.  It does require the presence of a WD drive in your system, but there is no requirement that the drive being cloned from or to has to be WD.

I always prefer to clone in my desktop; it is just easier when you don't have to worry about special boot procedures, not enough controllers, etc.  Cloning to the 1TB 840 EVO SSD made it even easier as there was no need to resize partitions.

[michail71]

I didn't know there was a WD version of Acronis.  It's been years since I've used Acronis but I remember it was easy to use and always seemed to work.

[ssdusd]

I got the answer for you. If you have 1TB and you want to transfer it to SSD 265GB, you Can NOT, becuse if you would like to clone it you shold have HDD 1TB and SSD 1TB so you can clon it. 

But You can Transfer the data by Acer Recovery Managment to Flash memoery and Reset the Win.

[gergev]

Apparently you can clone to a smaller capacity SSD drive.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/417734-cloning-hard-disk-to-ssd

[michail71]

Yes, I've done cloning to larger and smaller drives many years ago.  It just requires the right tool.

[miguel69]

yes if you are going from a larger disk to a smaller one you will need to resize the DATA and/or OS partitions using diskmgmt.msc or Mini Tool Partition Wizard so the total size is equal to or smaller than the new drive then you can use Macrium to create an image copy of the partitions to an external drive then restore them to the new drive.