Question: I’m planning to clone the old 500GB system disk to the newly bought 250GB solid state disk (SSD) since the latter reads and writes data faster. Is it possible to copy large drive to smaller? If it is, what tool should I use?
Answer: cloning drive is more related to data capacity rather than disk capacity. As long as the target disk has enough space to save all content on the source disk, it is possible to clone large drive to smaller one.
Nowadays, a lot of drive clone software has been developed and released, which can help image both disk and partition. And MiniTool Drive Copy is an outstanding performer. Firstly, no professional knowledge is required since detailed prompts will be provided. Secondly, drive clone can be realized in a quite short time. Thirdly, all data information will be protected. Fourthly, it is a piece of freeware. More importantly, all partitions will be aligned automatically once users choose 1M alignment in the process of copying large drive to smaller, which is quite useful for solid state disk. For detailed operating steps, please look at the following example.
How to Copy Large Drive to Smaller with MiniTool Drive Copy
When recommended drive clone software has been installed, please run it to get its main interface shown below:
In this interface please choose “Disk to Disk” module since it is used to clone disk. After that, all disks will be listed out:
Please select the disk which needs copying and click “Next>”. Then, choose the smaller disk to save the copy of the source disk and click “Next>”.
Next, choose a copying method from three and click “Next>”, and then a note will pop up:
Please read the note carefully for it tells where and how to set the new disk as the default boot disk, and then click “Finish”.
At last, click “Yes” to execute all changes. And after that we are successful to copy large drive to smaller.
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