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A customer brought a desktop machine in and I discovered that the hard drive is on its way out so he decided that he wanted to replace it with an SSD instead of an HDD.
I tried to image the drive with Macrium Reflect but it kept throwing errors and failing, telling me to run chkdsk /r, but even after doing that it still kept failing with the same message, so I then tried Clonezilla which was successful and even verified everything as restorable.
The existing HDD is a WD 500GB and the new SSD is also a WD of 240GB. Clonezilla now says that it can't restore the drive because the new one isn't big enough, telling me that the source was 500GB but the destination is only 240GB - even though the actual image file itself is only 96GB because there wasn't much data on the original drive and it was mostly free space.
If there's a way to get Clonezilla to do this, would someone please be kind enough to tell me just exactly how, and I really do mean step-by-step because I really know nothing of how to use it other than just in the beginner default mode.
Thanks
I tried to image the drive with Macrium Reflect but it kept throwing errors and failing, telling me to run chkdsk /r, but even after doing that it still kept failing with the same message, so I then tried Clonezilla which was successful and even verified everything as restorable.
The existing HDD is a WD 500GB and the new SSD is also a WD of 240GB. Clonezilla now says that it can't restore the drive because the new one isn't big enough, telling me that the source was 500GB but the destination is only 240GB - even though the actual image file itself is only 96GB because there wasn't much data on the original drive and it was mostly free space.
If there's a way to get Clonezilla to do this, would someone please be kind enough to tell me just exactly how, and I really do mean step-by-step because I really know nothing of how to use it other than just in the beginner default mode.
Thanks