resizing and cloning a system drive - is this a 2 step process?
I have a 1TB hard drive that is the system drive on an old machine. I want to free up that drive.
I have a 80Gb hard drive that is not being used.
I want to clone the 1TB to 80GB. Using clonezilla, it says the 80 is too small (there's only 30GB on the 1TB drive, but it's a 1TB partition.
Is the process to use gparted to resize the partition to under 80GB then clonezilla to clone the drive (it's a bootable win xp system disk).
is there a 1 step (free?) app that will do both parts?
I have a 80Gb hard drive that is not being used.
I want to clone the 1TB to 80GB. Using clonezilla, it says the 80 is too small (there's only 30GB on the 1TB drive, but it's a 1TB partition.
Is the process to use gparted to resize the partition to under 80GB then clonezilla to clone the drive (it's a bootable win xp system disk).
is there a 1 step (free?) app that will do both parts?
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You could always just capture the image of the machine using whatever means you want. There are plenty of free options. Then you could reimage the 80GB hard drive. That's a lot more steps than you were originally planning, but it would do the trick.
But, you can only resize a partition, not "necessarily" a hard drive. Cloning a hard drive (all the sectors, etc.) is a 1 to 1 match up - a partition is not.
I want the smaller drive to be a dupe of the system drive - bootable, etc. just smaller. maybe my wording is wrong.
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thanks everyone
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even though the 1TB drive only has a 60GB partition now, it still says the target drive is too small cause it's basing it on drive size, not partitions.
I think acronis true image will clone and shrink the partition in the process. got to check my old disk I have.
I know shadow protect will let you image the big partition, but then balks if you try to restore it to a smaller drive. true image will allow you to resize.
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