At this point, I figured that I had better shrink the 320 GB HDD partitions so that they'd be small enough to fit onto the 250 GB SSD. Another EXT4 partition was recognized as 'Ext4' and the Swap was recognized as 'Linux Swap'.īecause / and /home partitions were recognized as 'Other', it was a sector by sector copy. Oddly enough, my / and /home partitions weren't being recognized as EXT4, only as 'Other'. It's always done well for me with partitioning.

I then turned to my bootable USB (Linux version) of MiniTool Wizard Pro 8.1.1 (purchased). One thing it does have is an option to ✔-Optimize for SSD.

Because it's a sector by sector copy, I couldn't resize any partition so that I could fit the larger 320 GB to the 250 GB. Unfortunately, my 9.2 version doesn't recognize EXT4 filesystem natively and has to use the sector by sector copy feature which takes a long time. I tried cloning the the HDD to the SSD using my bootable USB EaseUS Todo Backup (purchased) that has cloning. No problems there it was instantly accessible. I attached my Samsung with my USB to SATA adapter. I took the plunge and got an Samsung EVO 250 GB SSD.

Easeus todo backup 9.2