Windows 10: Imaging a HD

Will an image 223GB of 1 Tbite HD go into another 500GB HD ?

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How do I restore a system image to a NEW hard drive?

You cant restore to a different location. Restore is not a true backup. If you want to migrate an OS from HD to HD yoou need to use something like Acronis True image home (free to try) where you would make a byte by byte system image and save it to the
other Hd then restore it to the destination HD

 

Windows 7 System Image Not Found on External USB HDD after Windows 10 Backup

I've been successfully saving and restoring Window 7 system images to/from an external USB HD for years. I've successfully restored these Win7 images using a system repair DVD.

Prior to installing Windows 10, I saved a system image to the external HD. After installing Win10, I saved a system image to this same HD.

Now Win10 is randomly freezing, so I wish to restore the latest Win7 image. If I attempt to do this from Win10 Repair, all the old Win7 images are listed, but if I attempt to restore one of these, Win10 Repair says it cannot restore a Win7 image.

When I attempt to restore using the Win7 repair DVD, it fails with the "System Image Not Found" message. The HD is accessible, since I can browse it from a command window. It appears that saving a Win10 image on this HD has broken Win7 system repair.

Any ideas about how to restore a Windows 7 system image in this situation?

 

It should do, there's no reason for it to make an image of the free space. Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free

 

Yes, as long as your imaging software only copies the sectors that actually contain data.

 

Hi there

You also might get a SMALLER image if your backup / imaging software allows you to change the compression - a higher amount of compression will require a smaller backup space but can take longer to perform so you trade off speed against backup size --if doing say overnight then no problem.

Note also that some files will compress better than others -- things like Office documents, png / jpg files and text files can sometimes compress to 90%. Multi-media and things like zip / rar files that are already compressed won't compress much further.

Note this compression unlike say mp3 files is LOSSLESS -- on restore you won't LOSE DATA.

AFTER BACKUP - VERIFY your image before deleting all or any of the original files.-- sometimes a RESTORE can fail and if you only have that as your single copy and you've wiped the original -- Need I say more.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Thanx Alta & Torc,

I tried it & dos not allow Large into Smaller disk, please see attached.

Thanx Jimbo will study your post later.

 

The target partition not the disk has to be bigger than the source.

 

Exactly. The OP has no partitions big enough on destination disk to store the image.

 

What you need to do is copy the first partition then click 'Restored Partition Properties' and reduce the partition size, to say 37GB, then repeat the process, as needed, for the other partitions.

 

Still won't work. There is no destination partition big enough.
Solution , if he can. Delete all partitions on the destination drive and create one big partition to accomodate the image.

 

Yeah, apologies if that was not obvious, delete the existing partitions on the destination disk before starting...

You don't need to create one big partition, just leave the disk empty.

 

Thanx all,

I do not dispute you but, how did you arrive to that conclusion?

 

Well colour me intrigued. If the disk is empty i.e. no partitions how is it going to write the image ?

 

To which conclusion are you referring? There are appear to several, lol...

My replies are accurate and gained from experience, take it or leave it.

Macrium Reflect creates the partitions on the disk.