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I have an image that was created from a 500GB HD & cannot get it to restore to a 250GB drive.
I have tried going into the advanced settings & picking the options there & have had it work in the past, but it's just not happening today. Is there a way I can prepare the drive before cloning it, so it will appear as a smaller drive when restoring?
My ultimate goal here is to move the contents of a 500GB IDE drive to a 2580GB SSD.
Thanks!
Last edit: Mike 2023-08-10
That's the limitation of Clonezilla.
Basically it's better to follow 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
Since you have taken that as an image, you can not resize the source disk.
One workaround for you, if you can accept.
Use a virtual machine, like Virtualbox or VMWare WS. You create a machine with original source disk size. Restore the image to that disk. Then follow the above URL to use Gparted to resize the source disk of VM, then take an image again, this time when restoring, run it with the options "-icds" and "-k0".
A lot of steps you have to do, but that's the method which will work for sure.
Steven