Please let me know what you guys think it definitely seems possible to clone from a larger HD to a smaller one, if your source disk (and target, I suppose, but mine is new) is healthy. 132 Dislike Share CD247 Repair Centre 840 subscribers In this video I'll show you how to correctly clone and resize your hard drive, on to a smaller Solid State Drive, or other smaller.
I had read that bad sectors wouldn't make a difference when cloned, as they wouldn't be copied then, I also read that it does make a difference.I'd say from this first experience, it does.
Caution: To create a working clone, you must clone all the system. It has some good features including imaging your OS to a smaller SSD for example. In the target disk area, click Select a disk to clone to and select the SSD disk. AOMEI is probably the most comprehensive disk cloning tool available for free. The Clone dialog appears with the source disk selected. This time, when I dragged the lst partition, it showed only the 300 MB transferring to the available 450 or so SSD no problem, then dragged the 2nd partition (recovery partition) and it wouldn't fit, so reduced it about 30 MB and viola, it fit.clicked on backup and it worked for about 15-20 minutes, then "clone failed".reasons given were failure to read.and failure to write.The reason I bought a new SSD was that I got innumerable error messages, that my HD was failing, collaborated by 3rd party software (Acronis). In Macrium Reflect, click the Backup tab.
Topgun, if he resized the C partition small enough he could do it.Well, I thought it was going to work.I only have 3 partitions in my 2 TB HD, with 300 MB used.