Can i use my notebook recovery disks to migrate from a 640gb hd to a 120 gb ssd?

Hi, I want to replace my 640gb harddrive with an 120 gb ssd. I created 4 recovery disks from the recovery partition of my notebook and i want to use them to recover my windows 7 installation to the SSD. Is this possible? Or does the recovery expects 640gb of drive space for a recovery? Br, Peter

Hi, Peter:
Most likely the disks will error out and inform you of trying to use them on too small of a hard drive.
But, give it a go.
If you can't use them, then do this next best thing...
Before you remove your existing HDD, copy your SWSetup folder to a portable hard drive. That contains all of the program and driver installation files that came with your PC in sub-folders. You can click on them now to see what you can reinstall.
Then...
If you can read the 25 character Microsoft windows 7 product key, you can download plain Windows 7 ISO files to burn to DVD's for the version of windows that came installed on your PC, and that is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC's case.
Burn the ISO using the Burn ISO option on your DVD burning program and burn at the slowest possible speed your program will allow. This will create a bootable DVD.
Use the 25 character product key on the PC to activate the installation.
The key will activate either a 32 or 64 bit installation.
Then go to the PC's support and driver page to install the drivers you need.
Link to the W7 ISO file downloads is below.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/
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