Windows 10: Cloning a large capacity hard disk to a small SSD

Hi looking for some advice, I have a laptop and the HD is painfully slow so I have decided to swap the hard drive for an SSD. Now the existing hard drive is a 1TB drive but for what I need the laptop for I have opted for a much smaller SSD drive (I have plenty of Network storage and the laptop is only likely to be used two or three times a month at most). I don't need all the hidden recovery partitions, I just need the one required for the boot process and the C drive.

So is this possible? Secondly if so how and finally what the best cloning software to use?

Thanks in advance

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Query about cloning hard disk to ssd and its effect on the licence

Hi Thavidu,

With respect to Windows 10 activation: changing the hard disk does not affect activation. You will need a license for Windows 10 only if you change the motherboard and/or CPU.

I would suggest you to check the suggestions by BulldogXX from the link mentioned below and see if it helps.

Can I clone a Windows 10 drive to upgrade to SSD?

Please revert if you need any further assistance regarding the cloning of the hard disk.

Thank you.

 

Clone a 1 Tb drive to a 512 Mb SSC

Hi Vaughn,

You can
clone larger HDD to small SSD with a professional disk cloning software as long as the used space is smaller than the SSD. You will not worry it will clone the unused space unless you use sector by sector clone mode.

I suggest you to clone your HDD to SSD with AOMEI Backupper, if the used space is larger than the SSD, you can clone only the OS to SSD and keep the HDD as data storage. This software is very easy to operate.

 

HDD to SSD clone

In general, there is no way to clone 500 GB hard to 240 GB SSD. But if your data on hard drive is less than 240 GB, you can use AOMEI Backupper. This software allows you to clone large hard drive to smaller SSD.
hope it works for you.