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Cloning drive problems

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jakescakes

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Be easy on me. This is the first time trying to clone a drive and ran into a little problem. Bought an SSD to replace the drive in my laptop. Got all the way to end with Clonezilla but says the target drive is too small.

My source drive is 1000gb, but only has 50gigs of data on it, while the new SSD drive is 250gb. Didn't know that would prevent me from being able to clone it. Anyone recommended the easiest way to clone it? Thank you in advance for any and all help.
 
If this is a windows box reduce the size of the partition in the builtin DiskManager before running clonezilla.
 
Yes, its a windows drive. Going to look into that now. Thank you! Edit: Would I have to reinstall the drive in the laptop or can this be done by installing it in my desktop?
 
Hmm, that could be because its a windows system drive/partition now in another system and windows can get cranky in those situations. One option is to put your old drive back in the laptop, fire up windows there to make sure its ok and shrink the partition there.

Or I would try Macrium Reflect Free on your desktop, that can clone/shrink to the new ssd with no problems usually.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
 
Thanks Ranulfo! Putting the drive back in the laptop worked. There was a problem with the drive but windows repaired it. Kinda of a stupid question but I do not want to screw this up. There is only around 50gb of data on the drive I need and 873gb free space. Do I shrink the drive to 800gb for example?

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I would not shrink it to the minimum possible size. Leave a few GB extra above the minimum size. This way you will have no issue using the system before expanding it back to the SSD size.
 
Was hoping to come back with positive news. I shrunk the partition and Clonezilla is still saying the drive is too large to clone. Still showing 1tb and not the new size I shrunk it to. Was I supposed to do anything else after shrinking it in order for Clonezilla to recognize the new size? Like giving the new unallocated partition a name to distinguish the two?

Im sorry for all the questions guys and thank you to everyone whos has commented. Im not like most computer savy person, but i enjoy learning.
 
I have never seen it do that. Although it could be that your C: is inside of an extended partition and clonezilla wants to copy the whole extended partition. You could fix that with gparted (available on its own live iso or packaged on other live isos like sysrescuecd) however it will be simpler to use Macrium Reflect free.
 
jakescakes said:
Was hoping to come back with positive news. I shrunk the partition and Clonezilla is still saying the drive is too large to clone. Still showing 1tb and not the new size I shrunk it to. Was I supposed to do anything else after shrinking it in order for Clonezilla to recognize the new size? Like giving the new unallocated partition a name to distinguish the two?

Im sorry for all the questions guys and thank you to everyone whos has commented. Im not like most computer savy person, but i enjoy learning.
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Others told you many times what program to use and yet you go back and forth and keep asking the same question. Use AOEMI backup.. That works well.. You need to be careful cloning UEFI boot systems but MBR systems are not a problem. many free programs that work for cloning as long as the target drive is bigger than the data on the source drive.
After trying a few programs and ending up with boot problems and activation problems I use aomei backupper.. many of their other programs also clone drives but activation and then booting up might be a problem. So I stick to something that works most of the time for me and also works with MBR and UEFI systems.
 
OP, I'm sending you PM instruction on how to successfully use Clonezilla to go from a Larger sized drive to a smaller size drive (given that the total size of the partitions you are closing is small enough to fit into the smaller drive's storage capacity).
 
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