Is it possible to clone HDD to smaller SSD?
Migrating HDD to SSD is one of the ideal ways to upgrade your computer since the
reading and writing speed of SSD is much faster. But it can be tricky to clone old
hard drive to a smaller SSD because your data won't necessarily all
fit on the drive. So when it comes to this topic, many people have difficulty in
finding a proper software to solve the problem. Don’t worry! Here, AOMEI Partition Assistant makes
it possible.
About AOMEI Partition Assistant
AOMEI Partition Assistant is a powerful partition manager equipped with a variety of
features and user-friendly interfaces which aim to make your disk/partition
management much easier and safer.

As shown from its main interface, many utilities are available so that you’re able to
manage your partiton/disk through “Resize Partition”, etc or more advanced ones such
as migrate OS from GPT disk to SSD, “Make Bootable Media” and so on. It supports
Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista as well as XP (32&64bit) and most Operations can be
done without data loss just by a few of clicks. Now let’s see how to clone old hard
drive to a smaller SSD easily through this tool.
How to: clone via AOMEI Partition Assistant
You need to install and launch Partition Assistant. Before transferring HDD to SSD,
ensure the smaller SSD has been connected to your computer and it is blank or said
unallocated space. Otherwise, data on SSD will be wiped. If there’s something
important, please back
up first.
1) Right click the old hard drive and select “Copy Disk”. The “Disk
Copy Wizard” on the left side works the same.

2) In the pop-up window, keep the default option because you’re cloning old hard
drive to a smaller SSD.

3) Select the target disk. Don’t forget to tick the box to optimize the performance
of SSD.

4) It allows you to adjust the partition size in this step. Set according to your
needs.

5) Please read note carefully then click “Finish” for confirmation.

6) Pending operations will be displayed as the following picture shows. Click “Apply” to
execute. This is also another advantage of AOMEI Partition Assistant. In this case,
you don’t have to worry about any accident human mistake during the process.

Afterwards, Partition Assistant will successfully copy HDD to the smaller SSD
soon.