To be able to restore to a smaller spinner that's available to get the system backup asap while a larger replacement is ordered.In case a replacement spinner of the same size (1TB) has a slightly smaller capacity due to different manufacturer/model setup.As such, I want to backup and restore the entire HDD just as my friend will be doing until her drive fails.īeing able to restore to a smaller hard drive has two reasons for me: I'm testing the restore to insure that backups being made for years until the system internal hard drive fails are not for nothing. Leave the extra free space at the end of the drive.Ī hassle, I know, but it will be faster and easier than trying to straighten out the whole boot partition thing. Use Easeus Partition Master(free) to resize so your partition totals are less than the new drive. The 'Layout' toolbar button is available if the selected partition on the the target drive is a copied partition that can be resized/moved or a drive letter can be chosen after the clone/restore operation.The easiest way to do it is resize the partitions before the image is created. In either of the above cases the toolbar option 'Fill Space' is also available.Įxisting partitions can be deleted by selecting the partition and taking the 'Delete Partition' toolbar buttonĪll existing partition can be removed by taking the 'Erase Disk' toolbar option, This option can be useful to free up space by deleting multiple partitions with one click, however, existing partitions will be automatically deleted if copied partitions overlap their start or end sector.

If free space is available after a copied partition then the toolbar option 'Float Right' is available. If free space is available before a copied partition then the toolbar option 'Float Left' is available.

Macrium clone to smaller drive