You don't need to shrink anything, just back up your disk image as is, the backup only backup the Data, not the whole disk then just restore to your ssd.
Hello topgundcp,
An image is the whole system disk/partition.
I believe strgt is wanting to create a full system image backup to be able to quickly restore it to the SSD without having to do a clean install. If so, just backing up the data will not restore Windows.
Shrinking the Windows HDD partition first so it will be the same size or smaller than the SSD would be a better option for what strgt is wanting to do.
Hi Shawn,
Maybe you misunderstood what I said, Data means any used portion of the disk that includes Windows OS+Apps etc....
For Example: I make a backup image of 150GB Raptor HD with 30GB of used space using Acronis, the image produced by Acronis is only around 20GB then I restore to a 80GB SSD, so I dont need to shrink that 150GB to 80GB to match the size of SSD.
According to OP, He said he only have Win 8 and few other things installed so shrinking is redundant.