I seem to remember using the free version of Macrium Reflect and it worked very well but then again on another occasion I tried the job with some other software and it was by no means as easy.
It helps if the new SSD is nice and big in relation to the old hard disk - probably easier to achieve now that SSD prices are lower than when I did it
I normally use one of the bundled versions of Acronis true image... they used to give away a copy with every HyperX SSD so I have loads of license keys. I will email you one... (assuming email is valid, but if not email me)
The last time I did this I used HDClone. The only faffabout is that HDClone needs to be burned onto a CD/DVD and you must be able to boot from that CD on the host computer.
Looks as though you may be sorted but I did this job recently using Acronis - which I already had as my backup program. Bought a cheap USB lead from Ebay which plugged into the sockets on the SSD, cloned the C: drive onto the SSD, then swapped the SSD with the existing C: drive and all was well. If anything goes wrong, you've still got the old drive to putback in. John M
When I uninstalled Acronis, it left behind some Reg. entries. Bit of research: removing these can cause trouble. Found instructions and got rid of them.
Now, to migrate to the SSD (smae size as HDD), Macrium Reflect, Clone, remove HDD, boot, been OK ever since. For backup, simply clones of the SSD to 2 HDDs.
IME yup, gparted can shrink a partition and patch up all the internal pointers etc so it remains internally consistent.
However compared to the likes of Acronis which will copy all partitions, and the boot sectors etc, resize on the fly and also cope with both MBR or GPT disks, it seems like a hard way to do it.
I'm about to do something very similar. I assume your SSD was in a caddy and you plugged your Ebay USB lead into that. Was there anything special about the lead? Got a link?
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