- Jan 23, 2007
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I have a Wavlink HDD docking station that I've used numerous times to clone hard drives for several computers.
I found myself wanting to upgrade from HDD to SSD in a Lenovo laptop that is around 3 or 4 years old, since it seemed slow this past spring. Evidently the docking station will not properly clone a drive to a smaller drive, so someone on here suggested that I download Macrium Reflect free, hooked the docking station up using the USB cable, and clone the hard drive to SSD that way.
When I attempted this, it kept giving me a message about being unable to fit everything on the new drive. This was surprising to me at first, because of the 1TB HDD, we only used a grand total of 79 GB of space. I figured that since we were only using 8% of the drive, I might as well just buy a 500GB SSD, which would have me using 16% of that.
I was quite surprised by how many partitions were showing up on that Lenovo HDD - something like 7 different ones. However, Macrium Reflect did allow me to eventually try just cloning the NTFS Windows Partition to the new SSD, which was successful.
The only trouble was, then it wouldn't boot at all from the SSD, so I had to put the old HDD back in for now.
Is there another partition other than the NTFS/Windows one that is required for booting? I'm not sure what else to try. Thanks for any help! If I can successfully get this done, I think it will really speed things up on this laptop.
I found myself wanting to upgrade from HDD to SSD in a Lenovo laptop that is around 3 or 4 years old, since it seemed slow this past spring. Evidently the docking station will not properly clone a drive to a smaller drive, so someone on here suggested that I download Macrium Reflect free, hooked the docking station up using the USB cable, and clone the hard drive to SSD that way.
When I attempted this, it kept giving me a message about being unable to fit everything on the new drive. This was surprising to me at first, because of the 1TB HDD, we only used a grand total of 79 GB of space. I figured that since we were only using 8% of the drive, I might as well just buy a 500GB SSD, which would have me using 16% of that.
I was quite surprised by how many partitions were showing up on that Lenovo HDD - something like 7 different ones. However, Macrium Reflect did allow me to eventually try just cloning the NTFS Windows Partition to the new SSD, which was successful.
The only trouble was, then it wouldn't boot at all from the SSD, so I had to put the old HDD back in for now.
Is there another partition other than the NTFS/Windows one that is required for booting? I'm not sure what else to try. Thanks for any help! If I can successfully get this done, I think it will really speed things up on this laptop.