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I bought a small 30 gig ssd Kingston brand to use as the boot drive and it included a cloning program for moving your os and programs over to new drive and then using the old drive for storage. Sounds simple until it tells you that your current drive needs to have less info on it then the ssd drive which is only 30 gigs, I know there has to be a better way to do this,also while I am doing this I thought of changing from win 7 32bit to win 7 64 bit. Any help would be appreciated as I really don't want to dump my primary drive to clone it onto 30 gigs

You've reached a point where a decision needs to be made: keep trying to fit the peg (that's too big) into the new hole (that's too small) OR, start over.

IMO, the best way to do this is to start from scratch. Save all your files (documents, game files, etc). Install the 30GB drive and pull out the old drive. Install Win7 64 on the drive and get the computer back up and running.

You can add your old drive once the computer is running. I would format it so you have a clean drive to install all your games and programs.

thanks i thought so but it seemed extreme but why not its just time

I bought a 60gig ssd, did a fresh install of Win7 and have 2 other regular drives as slaves. Nothing but OS and a few programs go on the ssd. Needless to say it smokes! As for your problem do whatever you can to do it right. Try to put a fresh install on that ssd if you can.

What considerations should be made with regards to paging file and stuff now that the OS is on an SSD?

To be honest, I think it's going to be tough 30GB is pretty tight to have a full "normal" Win7-64 on. I have a 64GB drive and it was around 40GB withough much optimizing effort. You can probably get it down under 30GB with a lot of work, but I don't know how much of an ongoing pain it will be to use.

My 60gig ssd is at 19gigs used and 40gigs unused. That's because I dowload everything to the two other hard drives I have. SSD is for OS and a few programs and that's it. Running Win7 64 bit w/8 gigs RAM.