Issues with partition cloning

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Issues with partition cloning

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: reddogsgotbass

Created: 2025-09-11

Updated: 2025-09-13

reddogsgotbass - 2025-09-11

I have a clone of a 2 tb disk I need to restore to a smaller disk. The tool won't allow this so I shrunk the (windows) C partition to 256gb. I used savepart instead of savedisk and selected 3 partitions (C, system, and healthy?). When I restore all 3 parts to a new drive, windows won't boot bc it can't access system files. I've tried saying yes and no to move root to new mbr (I can't remember the exact prompt). Can I use savepart to clone boot drive? Or another way to be able to restore to a smaller drive?

Thank you

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Steven Shiau - 2025-09-13

You can refer to this:
https://drbl.org/fine-print.php?path=./faq/2_System/119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq#119_larger_to_smaller_disk_restore_clone.faq

Whole disk saving and restoring will be better for you, because it will cover the booting mechanism.

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