#Cloning Windows from large SSD to smaller M.2
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It would be much easier to just install windows manually onto that drive
Got a USB drive? Use the windows installation media program. Reboot to bios, select the drive to install it to. Once that’s done you’ll have two windows installs. Select the m.2 drive in bios to boot to that one, and you should automatically be able to access all the files from your other drive
For future reference, it would be wise to make a 80 gig partition for the windows install. Then the rest for all your media, apps, documents etc. it’s a little more work when it comes to installing programs instead of spamming the next button. But, much better in the long run for scenarios like this