This is easy enough to do, and does present you with some interesting opportunities. The third option, “Migrate to Virtual Machine”, allows you to create a virtual copy of your operating system, applications and data, that you’ll then be able to access via any of the major virtualisation tools (VMware Workstation or Fusion, Microsoft Virtual PC or Oracle VirtualBox). And if you only want your operating system on an SSD then it might be simpler to install it there directly Windows 7 installations in particular don’t take very long at all. The option might work for some, then, but there are no guarantees. And so you’re forced to keep choosing folders you can do without, until, eventually, the wizard lets you proceed. But Drive Copy doesn’t tell you how much space this has saved, or how much more you need to find. If your source drive is using 200GB more space than is available on your SSD, say, then you might start by deciding not to copy folders like Music, Pictures, Videos and Downloads. While this sounds like a reasonable idea, it’s poorly implemented. So Drive Copy’s wizard allows you to select folders that won’t be migrated, which will hopefully cut the migration task to something more manageable. Of course the big problem here is that SSDs are small, and usually don’t have the capacity to hold all your applications and data. The next option allows you to migrate your operating system to an SSD drive, useful for maximising performance. Essentially you just install a “GPT Loader driver” and all should be well. Here, though, Drive Copy can migrate your drive from a conventional MBR layout to something called Retained GPT, which allows you to use the full 3TB capacity of your drive with both 32 and 64-bit Windows, even if they have an old (non-EFI) BIOS. If you’re upgrading to a 3TB hard drive then most of the competition wouldn’t allow you to use more than the regular 2.2TB limit. This is already a little smarter than most disk cloning tools, then, but Drive Copy hasn’t finished yet. And, new to this version, any partition Drive Copy creates will automatically be aligned to avoid performance issues. Any free space between partitions on the source drive can also be removed at a click. In particular, Drive Copy will by default resize your partitions proportionally, so you won’t have any wasted space.
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