Migrate Hard Drive (Cloning)

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DanielGoosen

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Hi there!

Can you please help me with a free tool that allows me to copy my entire hardrive (Clone) to a smaller one?

It must run inside windows, and not a from boot-cd.

I have Win7 64bit.

Thanks!!
 
CloneZilla?

On MacOSX there is Carbon Copy Cloner (Free and Works 100%) but Windows - Clonezilla?
 
Gparted is great, use it weekly, never let me down.
 
PeterCH said:
CloneZilla?

On MacOSX there is Carbon Copy Cloner (Free and Works 100%) but Windows - Clonezilla?
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CloneZilla is a large file to download... I`m looking for a small app like DriveImage XML V2.13 This little app copies from drive to drive, but it only supports copying to equal or larger drives. What I want to do is copy a 160GB to a 80GB, and keep the OS and all files intact. Please help! (The application must run in windows)

Thank you!:)
 
Not free but I use Acronis True Image or Disk Director - will do this no problem - you will need to resize your 160GB partition first, so it can fit within your 80GB HDD.
Alternatively, do a full partition backup (not sector by sector) excluding the free partition space, then restore is back to the smaller drive and mark as active.

Any reason it "must" run in Windows? In most cases, if you're cloning a primary boot drive with an active OS, you will need to restart in some form of shell mode, so that the OS files are not locked.
 
howardb said:
Not free but I use Acronis True Image or Disk Director - will do this no problem - you will need to resize your 160GB partition first, so it can fit within your 80GB HDD.
Alternatively, do a full partition backup (not sector by sector) excluding the free partition space, then restore is back to the smaller drive and mark as active.

Any reason it "must" run in Windows? In most cases, if you're cloning a primary boot drive with an active OS, you will need to restart in some form of shell mode, so that the OS files are not locked.
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Thanks I will try that. The reason I must do it in windows, is because I already made an image of my hard drive in Macrium Reflect. Now the only way to access that image is to mount it in windows.
 
DanielGoosen said:
Thanks I will try that. The reason I must do it in windows, is because I already made an image of my hard drive in Macrium Reflect. Now the only way to access that image is to mount it in windows.
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I think both Acronis products have the option of making a recovery boot CD, whereby you can run/access either of the Acronis programs before Windows loads (DOS-type environment) - you can them mount the image, or restore the image without Windows loading. I'm not sure if Acronis will read/recognise the Macrium Reflect image though, but you can try.
 
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