macrium reflect cloning smaller to larger hard drive

Would it be that easy, using one of the free Clone tools, will any of them allow this. So C drive on the 1TB HDD would be say 225GB in size and the rest of the unused space taken up/created with a new partition/drive character.

Would it be a case of shrinking the volume of the existing 1TB drive to a volume space just under the capacity of the smaller, new SSD? Without my friend going to the expense of purchasing commercially available software that will do this, will any of the free cloning tools allow transfer/cloning of a larger HDD to a smaller SSD. Obviously it is just the OS I want to transfer to the new SSD.

I want to remove the HDD and replace it with a smaller 240GB SSD, probably a Samsung or Sandisk variant but that's not a given, but it will be 240GB in size, then convert the 1TB drive in to an external backup drive.īefore writing this thread, I did a fair amount of reading but still not sure if it is possible to transfer/clone larger HDD to smaller SSD.

I have a friends HP Pavilion 15 Laptop, with a 1TB HDD, the only thing on it is the Win 10CU operating system, ( using about 30GB ), the rest is free space, there are no other partitions.

Macrium reflect cloning smaller to larger hard drive