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Macrium will allow you to modify the partition size when you clone.
To be sure we are giving you good advice, I suggest you post a picture of your Disk Management. Only then we can seee things correctly.
I would use the following approach:
1. Move the bootmgr from the 100MB partition to C. Then you do not need the 100MB system partition any more. Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD
2. Define a primary active partition on the total new 500GB disk. The commands are:
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your 500GB disk in List disk)
Clean
Create partition primary
Format fs=ntfs quick
Active
Exit
3. Reduce the C partition on your 1TB partition to 500GB or less (must fit into your newly defined partition on the 500GB disk). If that is not possible with Disk Management, use the bootable CD of Partition Wizard (last entry on the page).
4. Image the reduced C partition on the 1TB disk and restore it to the newly defined partition on the 500GB disk.
Thanks a lot mate!I guess we are talking about Macrium 5.0.4870. I just updated my system and will update my Skydrive download site soon. I have long been waiting for the USB3 support. Unfortunately I can only use it in November when I am back in Florida. On my systems here I have no USB3. One day I need to get a new box - LOL.
I much prefer to use bootable cd's over installing programs on my PC. It keeps things less cluttered IMHO.
Keith, did you ever restore an image from a bigger partition to a smaller partition? I thought that only works with the Pro edition and I vaguely remember that I had a problem with that a couple of years ago. But maybe the more recent versions of Macrium allow that. I never tried it.
Well that was easy.
VBox VM with Win 7 X64 with a primary disk 25GB partitions System(100mb) and C(the rest) and a 25GB disk for the image file. The task is to move these onto a 20GB unallocated disk.
1. Image System and C with Macrium Free edition.
2. Shutdown.
3. Detach primary disk.
4. Create a new 20GB disk,
5. Boot the VM from the ISO supplied by whs.
6. Browse to and select the backup image.
7. Chose restore disk.
8. Select the 20GB disk to restore to.
9. Drag both partitions in the image to the new disk. Macrium automatically selects the size for the C partition.
10. Do the restore. Macrium automatically marks the 100MB partition Active.
11. Reboot the machine. This fails because the disks are in the wrong order in the boot sequence,This is probably a VBox thing.
12. Shuffle the new system disk to be first and reboot. Windows loads from the new disk and we have a working Windows 7.
Yes, Macrium works well.
Only issue for the average user is lack of gpt support in free version.
I think the oem's will be churning out a lot of machines with those.
There are a few other annoyances for advanced users.