Migrating to a smaller drive

kdconod · 12. Jan 2013, 05:44 AM

I'm trying to migrate from a 218 GB drive to a 119 GB SSD but Drive Image won't let me make the copy. The documentation says I can do this if raw is unchecked but I can't get it to work no matter what settings I use. Is there a way around this?

m22rdy · 12. Jan 2013, 05:12 PM

I'm not familiar with Drive Image and cannot investigate as the program is proprietary and not freeware, your best bet would be contacting the manufacturer support.

However, when I transferred from a TB to a 128SSD, I had to remove most of the things I had to an external hard drive to reduce the size of used files to BELOW 128GB before I could even considering cloning.

Eventually I had to just wipe and start again because of complications during the cloning process but I would try getting the original drive lower than the new SSD.

kdconod · 13. Jan 2013, 04:46 AM

That's the weird thing - I've got less than 50GB on the drive now and it won't let me copy even though most of the drive is empty!

kdconod · 13. Jan 2013, 08:25 PM

I tried resizing the partition in Windows 7...even though it is 90% empty it would only allow me to shrink it down to 125 GB which is still too large for my drive. So I guess I'll have to abandon Drive Image and find something else that will do the job.

crank · 14. Jan 2013, 06:31 AM

That's your best bet, most any partition manager will allow you to shrink the system drive much more than windows, some will let you copy with shrink to save you a step. And the imaging programs can do various combinations of this. Use whatever one is most intuitive for you, any of the imaging or partition programs reviewed on Gizmos can do what you need.

12. Jan 2013, 05:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
kdconod Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 3	Migrating to a smaller drive I'm trying to migrate from a 218 GB drive to a 119 GB SSD but Drive Image won't let me make the copy. The documentation says I can do this if raw is unchecked but I can't get it to work no matter what settings I use. Is there a way around this?

12. Jan 2013, 05:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
m22rdy Full Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 99	I'm not familiar with Drive Image and cannot investigate as the program is proprietary and not freeware, your best bet would be contacting the manufacturer support. However, when I transferred from a TB to a 128SSD, I had to remove most of the things I had to an external hard drive to reduce the size of used files to BELOW 128GB before I could even considering cloning. Eventually I had to just wipe and start again because of complications during the cloning process but I would try getting the original drive lower than the new SSD. __________________ Editor - Best Free Office Suite

14. Jan 2013, 06:31 AM	#5 (permalink)
crank Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Central Texas aka Hell Posts: 160	That's your best bet, most any partition manager will allow you to shrink the system drive much more than windows, some will let you copy with shrink to save you a step. And the imaging programs can do various combinations of this. Use whatever one is most intuitive for you, any of the imaging or partition programs reviewed on Gizmos can do what you need. __________________ you must be joking, oh man you must be joking

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13. Jan 2013, 04:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
kdconod Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 3	That's the weird thing - I've got less than 50GB on the drive now and it won't let me copy even though most of the drive is empty!

13. Jan 2013, 08:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
kdconod Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 3	I tried resizing the partition in Windows 7...even though it is 90% empty it would only allow me to shrink it down to 125 GB which is still too large for my drive. So I guess I'll have to abandon Drive Image and find something else that will do the job.