Migrate Or Clone – using Acronis

I will be getting a 120G Samsung 840 SSD drive as the primary drive to house windows 8.
Bought a Dell PC that comes with a Pre-installed Windows 8 and a Recovery Parition on a 2TB SATA Drive
What I want to do is , obviously , Copy the Pre-installed Windows 8 + Recovery 2 TB drive on to the 120 G SSD drive, without having to Reinstall Windows 8 and, furthermore, I do NOT have the Windows 8 , Start up CD/DVD from Dell..
Read about “alligments” of the OS, if I Clone it and is better to do a Migration procedure instead. And still some suggested a Fresh install of the OS, to prevent all the alligment problems.
Currently, I have NO Apps installed , just the Mcafee Security that comes with the Package and Microsoft Updates.
Please advise…Thanks
Answer #1
I’m not sure if you’ll be able to do that with acronis, any time i’ve tried to clone a larger HDD to a smaller HDD (even when there is enough space) it would not let me.
Answer #2
He’ll be able to do it with true image just fine, It has a disk cloning wizard feature for this
exact purpose. I’ve used it before a number of times and it didn’t disappoint!
Answer #3
He'll be able to do it with true image just fine, It has a disk cloning wizard feature for this
exact purpose. I've used it before a number of times and it didn't disappoint!
I read about suggestions using the – Universal Restore Disk . since the 2 HD are different in Hardware. What do U think?
Answer #4
As said before, You should use the disk cloning wizard, Just look it up on the menus.
It’d work 100%, No need to look for other solutions!
Answer #5
thankz