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Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph: Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and the step by step guide given there. Note: the tool will require a restart when doing this for the OS partition due to locked files, but this again will show you just how small the partition can be made.īenoit, that is correct and as documented (see below).
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Another method you can try is using a free partition manager program such as MiniTool Partition Wizard which will allow you to manually resize your partitions by dragging the side bars.
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The Shrink Volume results always show less space freed than other tools. You can restore a Backup image to a new drive to achieve the same results as using Cloning.
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See the link in my signature for 'Difference between Backup and Disk Clone' which has a lot more information on this subject.
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Yes, this is the main purpose of making a Backup image (as opposed to using Cloning) - the backup image is similar to a zip file, so you just need enough free space on your backup drive to hold it.
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Out of interest, is it possible to make a full backup of a whole source drive onto an external hard drive that already has files on it? or would I need a new dedicated external hard drive? I did remove around 160gb of media files before attempting the clone. Please see attached file for Shrink Volume quotation. I will look to locate the rescue media builder tool from within my Crucial version of Acronis. Thanks Steve, this gives me something to work with. I would strongly recommend making a full backup of the whole source drive before doing this. Note: you may need to clean up your C: drive, remove temporary files and move any large user files such as music, videos, photos etc to another drive then retry the clone again. This will give you an idea of how small Windows would let the partition be shrunk to. If you go into Windows Disk Management and select your C: drive, then right-click and try the option to Shrink volume shown there. I would suspect that 100.2GB is the minimum size that your C: drive can be reduced to while still allowing sufficient free space for essential Windows files and folders used by the OS, such as the system pagefile, swap file, System Volume Information folders used for snapshot data etc. When I check the properties of C: it's only showing 71.4GB used space. I don't know why it sees my C: drive as having 100.2GB used space. See KB 60820: Acronis True Image 2018: how to create bootable media as an example.
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one supplied by Crucial for free with an SSD purchase) versus the paid commercial product bought from Acronis. The method of creating the Rescue Media is by using the Acronis Rescue Media Builder tool from within the ATI GUI options - this may differ slightly depending on the exact version of ATI you are using, and may differ if you have an OEM version of ATI (i.e. The Acronis Rescue Media is a means of performing Backup, Recovery and Cloning from a safe environment outside of your Windows OS and all the applications this can have active, such as security programs (antivirus, malware prevention etc). was written in response to the high numbers of users who jumped straight into cloning without any understanding of the potential risks this can bring. Sophie, the forum topic CLONING - How NOT to do this. I watched a good few YouTube videos and didn't see anything like the points raised in this thread:Īre you aware of any YouTube tutorials that sit more in line with the thread above? I don't know what the Acronis bootable Rescue Media is for example. Now I bought these SSD's thinking it was as simple as cloning and re-arranging the boot order. When I check the properties of C: it's only showing 71.4GB used space.Īlso, since finding the forum I have noticed some warnings about cloning. If you look at your 120GB drive, you will find that this is actually much less in real size, and all SSD's need between 10% - 20% free unallocated space for over-provisioning. You other partitions on the 1TB drive are not being resized due to their type and use: The format/resize error is occurring for your main C: Windows OS partition when ATI is wanting to reduce this from 919.9GB to 100.2GB size. In this instance, it looks like your 120GB SSD is not large enough to allow the clone from your 1TB drive to it.