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Old June 23rd 18, 12:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
BenThere
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Default Move Windows To An SSD


What is the best free app to move my Windows XP pro OS from my laptop
HDD to a new SSD ?

I have two partitions and the SSD is slightly smaller than the HDD but
there is plenty of room on the SSD for all the HDD files.

I have a USB to drive adapter. I know this is slow since the laptop is
USB2 only but that is what I have to work with.

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Old June 23rd 18, 12:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Move Windows To An SSD

BenThere wrote:

What is the best free app to move my Windows XP pro OS from my laptop
HDD to a new SSD ?

I have two partitions and the SSD is slightly smaller than the HDD but
there is plenty of room on the SSD for all the HDD files.

I have a USB to drive adapter. I know this is slow since the laptop is
USB2 only but that is what I have to work with.


Sometimes the SSD company provides a tool.

*******

The SATA SSDs I've got, get enough power from USB bus power
for the job. And with the limitation of USB2 transfer
rates, that helps keep the power used on writes to a lower
value.

(On NVMe M.2 drives, power is 5 watts or more, so the
USB3 adapters that are coming out for that purpose soon,
power is going to be a problem for those.)

*******

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

Blue button, half way down the page, on the left.
"Home Use" is allowed for Free.

Download Macrium Reflect 7 Free Edition

That can clone from internal hard drive to a USB external.

In the easiest situation, if the last partition on the source
drive is the one with excess space, that's the easiest situation
to deal with.

+-----+-------------+-------------+------------------------+
| MBR | (something) | (something) | "Resize Me" on the fly | Source
+-----+-------------+-------------+------------------------+

+-----+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| MBR | (something) | (something) | Now smaller | Destination
+-----+-------------+-------------+-------------+

It will probably offer to do that without too much prompting.

The idea is, you shouldn't need to make any change to the
Source device, to get what you want on the Destination.

*******

The Macrium installer obtained from the above web page, is
a "stub" downloader. It can download two files. A 60MB installer
(enough for your current purpose) and 500+ MB of WinPE5 or
WinPE10 files for making an emergency boot CD, You will
eventually want an emergency boot CD for future usage
(for backups). But for cloning, there isn't an immediate
incentive.

The emergency boot CD (which it'll prompt you to make after
you install the software), it has a Boot Repair menu item.
This can be used, if for some reason the Destination drive
doesn't boot. That's the strongest incentive so far,
to make the CD. But to make the CD, you'd have to download
both items using the stub installer thing, if you want
to carry out that task immediately. Macrium will also
download WinPE5 or WinPE10 on demand later, and as far
as I know, the WinPE files come from a Microsoft content
distribution network.

Paul
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Old June 23rd 18, 05:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Move Windows To An SSD

Boris wrote:
Paul wrote in news
BenThere wrote:
What is the best free app to move my Windows XP pro OS from my laptop
HDD to a new SSD ?

I have two partitions and the SSD is slightly smaller than the HDD but
there is plenty of room on the SSD for all the HDD files.

I have a USB to drive adapter. I know this is slow since the laptop is
USB2 only but that is what I have to work with.

Sometimes the SSD company provides a tool.

*******

The SATA SSDs I've got, get enough power from USB bus power
for the job. And with the limitation of USB2 transfer
rates, that helps keep the power used on writes to a lower
value.

(On NVMe M.2 drives, power is 5 watts or more, so the
USB3 adapters that are coming out for that purpose soon,
power is going to be a problem for those.)

*******

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

Blue button, half way down the page, on the left.
"Home Use" is allowed for Free.

Download Macrium Reflect 7 Free Edition

That can clone from internal hard drive to a USB external.

In the easiest situation, if the last partition on the source
drive is the one with excess space, that's the easiest situation
to deal with.

+-----+-------------+-------------+------------------------+
| MBR | (something) | (something) | "Resize Me" on the fly | Source
+-----+-------------+-------------+------------------------+

+-----+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| MBR | (something) | (something) | Now smaller | Destination
+-----+-------------+-------------+-------------+

It will probably offer to do that without too much prompting.

The idea is, you shouldn't need to make any change to the
Source device, to get what you want on the Destination.


I'm a little confused. You show "Resize Me" on the fly, and also say you
shouldn't have to make any changes to the Source device. Do you mean that
the Source drive will not 'physically' be resized, but only take on the
size of the data when cloned to the smaller SSD? That is, if the data on
the Source drive is 400GB, but the partion is 700GB, the new SSD partition
will be 400GB (or whatever size the user specifies, that will hold both
the data and whatever extra space the user desires, up to the reamining
space on the SSD)?

Thanks.


The source disk is not modified.

The assumption (with regard to this picture) is, that the
source disk doesn't have 110GB of data on a 200GB partition.
As shrinking the partition to 100GB, would leave some data
stranded and that wouldn't work.

Here, you can see the amount of data involved, is smaller
than 200GB or 100GB and can fit on either device.

+-----+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------+
| MBR | (something) | (something) | 20GB on 200GB partition | Source
+-----+-------------+-------------+-----------------------------+

+-----+-------------+-------------+---------------+
| MBR | (something) | (something) | 20GB on 100GB | Destination
+-----+-------------+-------------+---------------+

If the last partition has "slack space", Macrium will automatically
offer to make the source fit the destination, and reduce the
amount of slack on the last partition.

If you want to adjust the size of any other partition,
you are on your own. And must rely on your own wit
and reflexes to get the job done.

If you clone the partitions one at a time, all sorts of
opportunities present themselves.

If you want to "practice", try practicing with two HDD,
since writes cost nothing on a HDD. It's better using
some old HDD for experiments, than burning up write
life on the SSD doing "experiments" on them directly.

And I do recommend experimenting, because I actually
learned a few things by accident while fooling around.
Like the "resize" menu, which you can get to by clicking
"Next" then "Back" after the basic transfer is defined,
then right-click a partition (as instructed by a
prompt at the bottom of the screen) - you can resize
or re-align partitions there. Alignment options include
CHS or megabyte (Win7) type alignment. Megabyte alignment
is *great* for SSDs, and is why that alignment was
invented by MS.

Paul
 




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