Re: [Clonezilla-live] Cloning a larger hard drive to a smaller hard drive

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According to this article, the small Windows 7 boot partition contains
data that could help restore the computer in case it gets corrupted
and can't start:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-avoid-200mb-hidden-system-partition-from-been-created-during-windows-7-installation/

For people who bought a Windows 7 disc though, this might not be a
problem. I'm not sure. But even if I only cloned the main partition,
wouldn't I still have the problems I'm experiencing now if the hard
drive sizes are different? Size seems to be the main problem for me
right now.

By the way, I did a test by making partitions on a blank destination
hard drive that were clearly larger than the partitions on the source
drive. Instead of having a 100 MiB boot partition, I used 120 MiB.
Instead of 15,000 MiB (a number that I typed in myself), I used 15,500
MiB. The result was familiar:

Status: 0x000025
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is
inaccessible.

I'm not sure why I'm having this problem. I know that I chose to "not
create a partition table" when restoring, because using the the
partition table from the image or creating one "proportionally"
resulted in errors saying the destination drive was too small.
Clonezilla works very well for me when I try to restore to the same
hard drive.

Perhaps Steven or some other developer can help us sort this out, and
maybe in the future there will some permanent solution that will make
it easier to clone to smaller drives.