So I was helping a friend clone his HDD to an SSD with Clonezilla when I found out the HDD was 1TB and the SSD was 500GB.
The HDD only had 290GB on it however, and we already created an image of it in clonezilla and it says that the 500GB SSD is too small. How can we get around this?
Caleb Clark
>What is partitioning
Aiden Foster
Please explain? How would partitioning anything help here?
Evan Watson
What's the OS on the HDD ?
Caleb Gonzalez
>clone his HDD to an SSD retard
Jaxon Smith
Windows 8 I believe, although we're booting into Clonezilla through a flashdrive before Windows even loads.
Andrew Carter
Boot into windows Download macrium reflect Clone drive Macrium reflect only copies over data used
Kayden Nguyen
Yes he is, but i've already started the process and want to finish helping him out.
David Wood
Can I get Macrium Reflect to turn it into an image and restore the image onto the other drive?
Andrew Diaz
resize partition with gparted dd partition onto SSD done
that's how I've done it (500 GB to 60 GB SSD)
Jack Bennett
Yea you can do that or you can just cone it
Jackson Morgan
Nice trips.
Okay, here's the deal. Clonezilla images drives or partitions. That means that it copies the blocks (used or not) of said drive/partition to another device. That's why you need a 1+TB drive to clone another 1TB drive.
To migrate his 1TB HDD to a 500GB SSD, you'll need a tool that copies only used blocks and also takes care of moving NTFS system shit and also resizes the partition. Don't forget to copy the EFI System Partition (if applicable) and copy/recreate any MBR/EFI entry or the system won't boot.
Zachary Taylor
this is the only logical true answer
David Perry
Can I make an image of the partition and load that onto the drive?
So let me make sure I understand this correctly
1. I can just pirate Macrium Reflect 2. It's a software I run in windows, I don't book into it like Clonezilla 3. I can make an image of the drive (which only images the data on it), and then restore that image onto the other drive.
Will it be faster than Clonezilla's process? Making an image of the drive last time took 2 and a half hours.
Christopher Gomez
Over complicated answer Also I believe dd copies block by block
Leo Moore
Macrium reflect is free and the most optimal way of doing this. Also macrium allows you to create image of the drive and restore it later or just clone the drive directly
Charles Campbell
Cool, that's what i'll do. Do you know if it's faster than Clonezilla.
Daniel Parker
Lot faster.
Cameron Mitchell
What does the paid version have that the free version doesn't?
Alexander Cook
Backups I think
Angel Nelson
Backups of? Aren't you already creating a backup when you make an image?
Nolan Rodriguez
Image is not backup. By backup I mean incremental backup
Bentley Torres
Well thanks for all the help, i'll definitely use Macrium.
What's the difference between a backup and an image though? Can't you just use the image as a backup?
Bentley Cooper
Can't clonezilla do compression while imaging? If most of the blocks are not used it should compress under 500GB if you zero all the unused space and do any kind of defragmentation.
Carter Sanders
The IMAGE is under 500GB but it will look for a drive of 500GB since that's what the original media was.
Owen Scott
Ahh. I guess in that case repartitioning would be the way to go cutting off the tail of 0's and imaging that, cloning that image unto a new drive then extending the partition.
That's if the other solutions in here don't work out.
Tyler Moore
You could use the image as backup if you want but if you are gona backup every day it will create full backups meaning creating image of whole drive every day that will take up lot of space. With incremental backup it will add to the image only the files that were changed.