Absolute clone?

[Sagi3]

Hi All,

I have just taken delivery of a shiny new laptop. Yay me

I have a hdd caddy instead of a cd drive. In my old Vaio i have a 500gb hdd that i would like to swap for an old 80gb one so that the Vaio will become the wifes/kids to destroy (they have done a good job of that so far, hence why the new laptop lol)

I would like to, if possible, make an exact clone of the 500gb hdd (only around 50gb used) onto the 80gb one so that i can have a 500gb storage drive to run alongside the nice new ssd, and the 80gb one becomes the only Vaio hdd.

Is it possible to do this, including Windows etc, so that i don't have to mess around with re-installs etc?

Thanks in anticipation for your help.

Sagi3

 

[Sagi3]

You can use something like Acronis True Image to do a backup of the contents of the 500GB drive to an image on an external HDD or network and restore it to the 80GB drive.

Thanks