“If my desktop hard drive is a 1 TB, but has over 700G of free space, will I have any issue cloning to this 480G drive?”

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• Before Cloning you should shrink you Windows drive partition to a value of less than 480GB then Clone it to the 480GB. After the clone go back in to Disk Manager and Expand the drive back to the full 480GB of the new SSD.

  Answered by ProfessorMesser 8 years ago

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• The software used with the drive will do a proportional clone. I went from 500gb to 480gb without a problem.

  Answered by LG39Class 9 years ago

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• You will need something like Acronis True Image software that can resize the partition.

  Answered by Keith 8 years ago

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• I can't give you a definite answer sight unseen, but if your data is only consuming 300GB uncompressed (meaning you haven't checked the "Compress this drive to save disk space"), you shouldn't have much trouble.

  Answered by Kenguil 9 years ago

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• With utilizing only 300GB, you should have no problem cloning onto a 480GB drive. Just ensure that you backup your files just in case and choose a good cloning program (NOT Acronis).

  Answered by froby1kinobi 9 years ago

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• No, you won't, you should be fine cloning your drive.

  Answered by JCReynoso 9 years ago

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• It will clone fine.My situation was almost identical. But, keep in mind that it's recommended as I understand it that SSD's have about 20% free space to work optimally. So eventually full really means about 380 GB. Your 1 TB drive will make a good secondary drive when your SSD is up and running.

  Answered by ShawPhoto 9 years ago

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• You should have no problem cloning your hard drive to the ssd.

  Answered by Rich 9 years ago

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• Hello, you will not have any problem if you think that the space required is enough for all your data, the fast performance archieved worth the sacrifice.

  Answered by Acomp 9 years ago

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• yea it should work it will only clone the part thats used

  Answered by Chappmaster 9 years ago

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