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Hi thanks yea I found out the hard way disks can be eaten by disk players :/
My new LG burner ruined a 7 pro install disk
Can't believe you haven't tried a flash for it
"...But Intelligent Sector Copy doesn't copy one to one, only whats in use..." I just now saw this. Macrium Reflect's Intelligent Copy is used, not in cloning drive-to-drive operations, rather, only for imaging of partitions operations. Yes, within reason, one can restore an full-image of a partition onto a smaller partition -- as long as one makes sure the "exploded [uncompressed]" bytespace is smaller than the target partition.
Last edited by RolandJS; 17 Dec 2015 at 12:40.
I always thought this was the case with Macrium. Of course you cannot put more data into a smaller space. It's logical isn't it.
The problem with Windows inbuilt system imaging was that it wanted to replace the MBR which contains the original partition structure in its partition table. If it didn't fit as defined by the partition table regardless of the data on the drive you got a failure. A somewhat smarter program can adjust the MBR partition table appropriately.