Recover from restore disk I made to ssd

Can I restore my system to a ssd drive from the restore disk I made when I purchased my computer or will it not work on anything but a hard disk drive? The drive is a intel 330 model that I was using and got some corruption or something and need to reinstall the system. The ssd is smaller than the disk drive which is why I am unsure if it will work. I have read that it will not clone data to a smaller drive. I think I previously used the windows 7 disk to do a clean install. If I do that again I will need to reinstall the drivers and I cant get on the hp support site to get all the updated drivers because it is not working and has been down for a while. I can not wait for a month or however long it is going to take hp to get their site problems fixed. I need to get this laptop up and running now. Any help would be greaatly appreciated.
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fishcrazy13 wrote:
Erico I appreciate the reply. Good to know that it will work fron the restore disks. I tried the link again for the support site and it did not work for me. It just spinns forever and then finally stops with no results. Thanks for your help.
Try a different browser, perhaps Chrome or Firefox.
I tried Chrome and had no issues with the download web page.
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