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<blockquote data-quote="TheBatfink" data-source="post: 876346" data-attributes="member: 52265">Hi Karmi, yes I did this. The thing to remember is Microsoft tools typically only allow you to migrate a drive to another of equal or greater size regardless of wether the actual amount of data on the HDD would fit on the SSD or not. What I did was download a trial version of Acronis True Image <a href="http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/" target="_blank">http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/</a> which is fully functional. With that software you can create an image of your HDD and provided the amount of data on your HDD will fit on your SSD, create a USB bootable stick (with the Acronis software you download) and then write it onto your new SSD as a perfect 1:1 copy.Once thats done and you are booting into Windows, re-run the Windows Experience Rating assesment tool and aparently it notices you have an SSD and makes the modifications to Windows nessicary for optimum performance.&nbsp;It literally took a couple of hours and was completely painless in my experience.&nbsp;Hope that helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheBatfink, post: 876346, member: 52265"] Hi Karmi, yes I did this. The thing to remember is Microsoft tools typically only allow you to migrate a drive to another of equal or greater size regardless of wether the actual amount of data on the HDD would fit on the SSD or not. What I did was download a trial version of Acronis True Image [url]http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/[/url] which is fully functional. With that software you can create an image of your HDD and provided the amount of data on your HDD will fit on your SSD, create a USB bootable stick (with the Acronis software you download) and then write it onto your new SSD as a perfect 1:1 copy. Once thats done and you are booting into Windows, re-run the Windows Experience Rating assesment tool and aparently it notices you have an SSD and makes the modifications to Windows nessicary for optimum performance. It literally took a couple of hours and was completely painless in my experience. Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]

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