disk-to-disk clone excluding partition?

[Kulith]

I have a 250GB wd in my laptop with 2 partitions, C and D. C is 60GB and I would like to clone that onto an 80GB seagate drive and swap drives.

I tried Clonezilla, but it only lets me do disk to disk (so 250GB to 80GB) or partition to partition (which wouldn't be bootable?)

Basically what I wanted to do was do a disk-to-disk but exclude the D partition on the source so there is enough space, is that possible?

 

[bAMtan2]

step one: backup the entire important disk with fool-proof software of your choice. because when dealing with disk imaging, everyone and their uncle has screwed up at one point or another. everyone except the people who heed this advice.

there are a zillion free and pay softwares that do this. you could spend a zillion hours reading about them. on windows, macrium is free but limited, acronis is cheap but shitty, shadowprotect is good but expensive.

step two: make sure you have a backup and it is detached from your computer and on the other side of the room.

step three: there are a zillion other programs that resize file systems, resize partitions, copy files, copy partitions, or any combination of these. one program called parted has a gui called gparted on a distro called parted magic, and you can see some pictures of its copy-partition and resize-partition-plus-implicitly-resize-filesystem functionality here: http://partedmagic.com/documentation/119-using-gparted.html

good luck and have fun