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I just bought an Asus S56CB, that has an i7 3517U, and Win8. I was hoping that the OS would be installed on the SDD, it is 24g and I am wanting the OS to take up the majority of it. Is there anyway to transfer the OS from HDD to SDD in my laptop?
 
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The base installation, maybe. Add one or two monthly updates, anti-virus....
Even with applications installed elsewhere, they usually save some data within the Windows install....AppData, User, etc.
And with an...
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A 24GB SSD will not work for the OS. That is almost certainly meant to be just a cache drive, and not a standalone drive for the OS.

It will not work.
 
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Oh, shoot, I was under the impression that Win8 OS was around 18-20g, and therefore should fit into my 24g SD?
 
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The base installation, maybe. Add one or two monthly updates, anti-virus....
Even with applications installed elsewhere, they usually save some data within the Windows install....AppData, User, etc.
And with an SSD, you need to leave 10-15% free, to allow the TRIM function to do its thing.

A 24GB drive will not work in normal use.

For an OS SSD, I recommend nothing smaller than a 128GB. Even a 64GB is marginal.
 
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Ok, thank you VERY MUCH for your answers and time :D, extremely dissapointed that I cannot put the OS onto the SSD :(... so then I should just use the SSD for whatever programs I plan on running the most? Its really just some niche thing at this point I guess
 
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I have 2 128GB SSDs. OS and applications on one, working data on the other.
The C drive is currently ~50GB used space. Anything smaller than a 128GB drive, and I'd be sweating that free space.
 
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