The total installation on the 250GB hard drive (will be) much, much less than 160GB.
I'm about to install Windows 7 to a 250GB 7.2k RPM because of the need to have a machine up and running today. In about a week, I will have to switch out this drive for a 160GB 10k RPM drive.
How can I go about doing the install and then the image and make this is painless as possible?
Answer
If the content used on the 250 is small enough create an new empty partition on the 250 using perhaps 100gb.(102400MB) Do that in win7 by going to My Computer, right click select Manage>Disk Management. Select C: and right click, shrink partition the amount of MB to shrink can be 102400 This should then give you a small enough installed OS partition to transfer to the new 160.
It is up to you and what you are comfortable with but I have used
http://www.partimage.org which clonezilla uses.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php has some good tools as well.
All free stuff and you can transfer this new smaller partition to the new drive.
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