I don't have the resources to confirm, but what you need to do is:
1) on source drive, make your largest partition small enough so that the
_whole drive_ will fit on the destination.
2) use clonezilla in expert mode to image the whole disk _not_ partitions,
and enable 'Skip checking destination disk size before creating partition
table'
by your description, I think you sized down correctly, you were just in the
mindset to do partitions only.
You need to image the whole disk to get the mbr and make the whole thing
work.
On Mar 20, 2012 8:26 PM, <jumpingspo...@hushmail.com> wrote:
> 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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