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Laptop Repair and Upgrade
HP Pavilion 15p Note Book, Win 10 Home, version 15063.
Laptop is about 5-6 years old, outwardly not a scratch on it, like new, my grand daughter wants to give it to her best friend's little girl who is coming up to 7.
There are some issues which I can resolve one of them being one of the USB ports is moving around, hopefully a tear down and soldering back to the board will resolve this.
All of the above is relatively easy but I would like to undertake a HDD upgrade.
This laptop came with a CD/DVD drive, I would like to remove the existing 1TB HDD and install it into the optical drive to be used as storage/back ups but it has the existing OS on it.
I would like to install a 250gb SSD and have the OS on that.
I can use Macrium. Aomei or EaseUs but my understanding is I can't clone from a larger HDD capacity to a smaller SSD capacity.
Which is the best way forward?
Instead of a clone would creating a mirror image of the existing OS be a better option to go from large HDD to smaller SSD?
There is practically nothing on the existing HDD save for the OS.