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Want to upgrade an old-ish Win7-machine of a friend with a SSD.
Aiming for 128GB one as it will suffice for the OS and few programs, and he doesn't want to invest much.
Thing is: the current HDD is 1TB (though only a small portion is actually used), so cloning the whole thing to the SSD is not an option.
Is it possible to partition the current HDD and only clone the needed partition to the SSD (might be able to get it below 128GB)?
Other option: starting with a fresh Win7 installation on the new HDD - thing is: there's no DVD, only a recovery partition on the current HDD - is it possible to clone this to the SSD, and use it to install Win7 ?
Thanks for any help! Got the feeling this isn't that hard maybe but I can't figure it out atm..