Migrate problem

I am trying to clone my 1T hdd to a 250G SSD, when I go star the clone, using Acronis, both disks show up as primary disks and will obviously not clone. I have Win 8.1 12G Ram, Lost tried Google and got nowhere any help appreciated.

 

Hi durkinjt,
I have used Acronis, in the past, to clone a system to an SSD but lately I've been using AOMEI. It's free, easy and does a very good job.
Download AOMEI here --> http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html

Then use the TUT here --> http://www.backup-utility.com/features/system-clone.html

Hope that helps..
2oG

 

Cloning will work so long as data on the 1tb doesn't exceed capacity of the 250gb.Not sure where you get the idea a primary drive can't be cloned to another primary you could in fact delete all partitions on the ssd & start cloning directly to an un-partitioned drive.

There is a website i know of that can help with all things to do with cloning if required,tho personally it shouldn't be required as cloning is fairly straight forward

 

scorp, when using AOMEI you are just cloning the system and not the data.. After cloning the system you can re-locate your data to another drive and set your system to point to your libraries and data on the second drive.. I have all my data and libraries on a second drive but am not using an SSD..

 

Thanks for the kind replies. When I try cloning or migrating I insert the Hdd as source and then the ssd as target, on the next step the ssd drive shows up as both the source and the target.

 

How do you have them hooked up? your HDD should be the boot drive (0) and SSD as a second drive (1) while cloning..

 

I just looked at the AOMEI Tut and it's an old version. The latest ver of AOMEI has a SSD system only clone feature so you can clone the system to the SSD and the libraries and data files stay on the HDD where you can use them as a second drive and they don't take up space on the SSD..

 

The SSD is showing up as the first drive. Please explain how to change setup if possible. Thanks again.

 

Thanks for the great info, all is well, working.