Steven, I read the posts in the first link first. It seems that
bri70123 only had one partition on his hard drive. Even then, I see a
potential problem for him, and I don't see how he overcame it. Let's
take the situation he gave us: 20 GB of used space on a 500 GB hard
drive. Now he wants to copy the contents of the 500 GB hard drive to
the 250 GB hard drive, so he shrinks the one partition he has to less
than 250 GB, and then he makes an image that he wants to copy to the
250 GB hard drive, using -icds.
It sounds straightforward enough, but I have some questions. First,
would he use the option to save partitions or to save hard drive? Is
Clonezilla able to tell the difference between a partition and a hard
drive? In my situation, I used the option to save partitions, then
tried to restore those partitions to a hard drive whose total size was
far larger than those partitions combined, but it failed, saying I
couldn't restore partitions to a hard drive or soemthing like that.
But I had no choice.
My situation is that I have 2 partitions from Windows 7. Since I have
2 partitions, I shrank the larger one to minimize the total size of
the 2 partitions. Now, if I try to use Clonezilla to save partitions,
I can only restore those partitions to other partitions (and not to
the hard drive as a whole). I tried to first restore the saved
partitions to my entire hard drive. I hoped that doing this would
erase the whole hard drive, create 2 partitions, and then allow me to
expand the second partition to take up all the unallocated space, but
it didn't work. I got that error telling me I couldn't restore to a
hard drive when I saved partitions instead of the entire hard drive
(of course I couldn't save the entire hard drive, because the image
would reveal that the destination was smaller, which Clonezilla
doesn't allow!).
So I tried something else. I did a clean install of Windows 7 to
create the partitions instead of going to the trouble of finding out
their exact size (all I know is that one is about 100 MB and the other
takes up the rest of the space if you install Windows on a blank hard
drive). Then I used restore partitions to overwrite the newly created
partitions, which, presumably, would be the correct size. I decided
that if I could successfully start Windows after this, I would simply
use Gparted to resize the larger partition to take up the rest of the
unallocated space. But again, I failed. This time, Windows refused to
start. When I tried Gparted anyways, it found an error on the larger
partition and couldn't do anything with it. So I hit dead ends whether
I tried to restore to partitions or to the entire hard drive.
Perhaps the document you provided to in the second link might help
with my situation? My situation is complicated because of 2 factors:
1. I need to clone to a smaller hard drive.
2. I have more than one partition
Any suggestions to point me in the right direction while I read your
PDF document?
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