> OK but then he should have said "If you had..."
>
> To me it looks like he's telling you to partition the drive now, which does not make
> any sense at all since you obviously have more than 512GB of data on the 2TB drive.
> Partitioning software does not know where your Windows Folder ends and your My
> Documents folder begins.
>
> Some partitioning software (such as OS X's built-in Disk Utility) depending on the
> filesystem of the drive, lets you split off empty space into a new partition. But
> this functionality is not useful in your case - unless you are prepared to start
> deleting or moving away stuff until you're down to less than 512GB.
>
> /EDIT actually I think it's possible to clone without partitioning the drive first,
> with some cloning software. What I mean to say is, if the partition to be cloned is
> larger than the space available on the target drive, but the actual contents of it
> are not, then you can still clone it.
>
> S
I've been busy offloading since last night. I think I'm doing the final folder right now. over 6.5 hours into a 260GB folder- on file ~358,000 of 466,000 as I write this.
Next steps- pull the Windows 7 license key and save it just in case- OEM machine from Micro Center that didn't give me the key on paper (at least I don't recall seeing it). There is a util to do this I know. Then I will probably delete all my Steam games since I can just re-download them. Also make a backup of the remaining folders before trying this clone software. It looks like I will have to wait until Sunday to continue as I am busy all day tomorrow and Friday.
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