Creating and restoring images problems

[Marc Laurens]

I am not having much success.

I have tried many times but no success.     I am working with a single disk made into 5 partitions.   
2 x linux ( which I am not interested in at the moment)

partition 1 ……250gb   (8gb used) windows installation  ntfs
partition 2 ….. 13gb  ntfs
partition 3…… 15gb…. ntfs

I have been trying to get the orginal windows installation onto the 15gb partion.  I have tried to do direct partition to partition without using an  image and the program complains about the size and advises to use -c , but when i choose advanced there is no -c option.

So Imaged partion1 (250gb, 8gb used) to partion 2 (13gb)   ….   The operation completes successfully .

I then try to restore the image to partition 3 (15gb) but it fails saying the image possibly corrupt or some other error about resizing partition and see ntfs faq.   When i boot into windows and check partition 2 (13gb) where the image is the folder is only 3.17gb is used when the original data on partition 1(250gb) is 8GB.

I note the following from the faq.. I think i understand that i could resize the original 250gb partition down to be smaller than destination but i do not understand what is meant regarding manually recreate the partition table.

Could someone offer any advice.   Is it ok to copy the image to a smaller partition as long as the restore partition is the same size (original) or larger or must the partition containing the image be same size or larger also?

http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/26_large_disk_to_small_one.faq#26_large_disk_to_small_one.faq

I am trying to restore an image of a 300 Gb drive (with 30 Gb of data) onto a 250 Gb drive, but it gives me an error that the output drive partition doesn't have enough space to fit the image. Is there any way to restore it anyway?
No. Clonezilla is an image-based program, which means the target partition size must be equal or larger than the original one.
However, it's can be done by using GParted (especially GParted live) to resize the source partition, then use Clonezilla to clone partition (not clone disk, i.e. use the option "restoreparts". That also means you have to manually create the partition table on the target disk, and the target partition size must be equal or larger than the source parition). Remember to backup important data before you resize a partition.

[Steven Shiau]

"I then try to restore the image to partition 3 (15gb) but it fails saying the image possibly corrupt or some other error about resizing partition and see ntfs faq. When i boot into windows and check partition 2 (13gb) where the image is the folder is only 3.17gb is used when the original data on partition 1(250gb) is 8GB. " -> You can check this:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq#102_restore_image_to_different_partition.faq

Steven.