Good Luck with your shrinking and cloning. After G parted was done, I rebooted and the laptop has been working perfect since. I also increased the size the main partition about 25 GBs leaving about 20 Gigs left for future use or projects (maybe a linux based OS) That took about 10 minutes. Checked everything out and appeared ok.įinally, I reran G parted again in the laptop to move the recovery partition back to the original spot on the drive. Once the laptop repowered up, the drive came up and windows booted up in about 20 seconds. I placed the WD320 drive into an ASD bag for storage.
#Clone mac hdd to ssd gparted Pc#
I removed both drives from my PC and installed the SSD into the laptop. Then reboot on a gparted live USB and move/grow your partitions as you need. The clone disk will be the exact duplicate of the original. If you want more fine grain growing, use CloneZilla live in Disk2Disk mode and beginner mode. Once that was done approximately 30 minutes later. The cloned disk will have all his space used (identical ratios from the old one). Then I ran the Disk Copy and moved everything over to Crucial SSD. Moved the Recovery partition to the front of the drive and pretty much as much as I could of unused space to make the WD320 small enough so the copying process would work on the Crucial. Create the desired partitions on the SSD using Windows tools, and then clone the partionns without the -k option, again hoping that ntfsfixboot works. Then I installed the WD 320 and Crucial 128 together into my PC for the shrink and cloning process. Resize the partitions with GParted, and then clone the partitions with the partition table, hoping that ntfsfixboot works. with it, you can directly clone GPT disk to smaller SSD and the cloned disk remains bootable.
#Clone mac hdd to ssd gparted software#
in addition, you can use profession disk cloning software like AOMEI Backupper. Next, I removed the WD320 from my laptop. If you are afraid that the efi partition cannot be cloned to the SSD disk, you can convert MBR disk to GPT first, and then clone HDD to SSD. I could not be bothered mounting a USB thumb drive I was lazy. This was the first I burned a CD in about a year! Go figure. I downloaded and mounted G Parted (Partition Magic) on a CD and downloaded another software called EaseUS Disk Copy and made a copy on to a CD. I got a Crucial M4 128 GB SSD for the laptop.