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  1. squid13 Win User

    Cloning a large drive to a smaller drive,


    I have a 1 Terabyte drive that I want to clone to a 500 gig M2 SSD. Would it be better if I split that drive in half to 500gig. The C drive would be a 500 gig partition and the other 500 would be a separate partition. I would then just clone the C drive partition to the SSD. The C drive is where my windows 10 is at. I'm using Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1 OS build 19043.1055

    :)
     
    squid13, Jun 18, 2021
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  2. SJMaye Win User

    Cannot clone drive to smaller drive

    Edition Windows 10 Pro
    Version 2004
    Installed on 10/14/2020
    OS build 19041.572
    Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.31.0

    I have used Minitool Partition Wizard for several clone jobs. Never had a problem up to now. The thing different is now I am cloning a 500GB drive to a 240GB drive. I have not done that before. I am confident that there is plenty of room on the 240GB drive for the image (checking contents now to be sure).

    When I try to clone the drive it states the target drive is too small. When I look at the partitions it shows a huge, full bitlocker partition. I really don't think that partition is full at all. Could that be the problem?



    Here are my drives listed in Minitool
    Cloning a large drive to a smaller drive, [​IMG]


    Here is the warning
    Cloning a large drive to a smaller drive, [​IMG]
     
    SJMaye, Jun 18, 2021
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  3. cloneing a drive in windows 10

    Hi,I have this question last year,but my os is windows 8.there are my steps of

    How to clone drive in winodws


    ,you can check.hope that helps

    First,I download a free tool of MiniTool partition wizard and launch it.

    Step 1. Connect SSD to Windows 8. Install and launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition, select the source hard drive and then choose “Copy

    Step 2. Select a disk to copy the source disk. Here you are expected to choose the SSD (we choose disk 3).

    Note: All the data on SSD will be destroyed, so make sure you have done backup in advance. You are allowed to clone a hard drive to a smaller SSD, as long as it can hold all data in the source disk. You can also clone SSD to larger SSD by using MiniTool
    Partition Wizard Free Edition.


    Step 3. Review the changes you are going to make and also change the copy options if necessary.

    Step 4. MiniTool Partition Wizard will tell you how to boot from the destination hard drive. So if you are cloning boot drive to SSD, you need to pay attention.

    Step 5. When you are lead to the main interface again, you can preview the changes you are going to make from the middle pane. (Here disk 3 has the same disk layout with disk 1.) If you confirm these
    changes, you should click “Apply” to make the changes effective. Hope that helps
     
    Areil.Bart, Jun 18, 2021
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  4. SJMaye Win User

    Cloning a large drive to a smaller drive,

    Cannot clone drive to smaller drive

    After removing Windows.old. Try the rest in the am. Thanks for the tips.

    Cloning a large drive to a smaller drive, [​IMG]
     
    SJMaye, Jun 18, 2021
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