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Thanks for the link. I didn't know that. But, I was also making a little joke about the extent to which whs goes to backup his data. I assume it's ok to poke a little fun at people on here... :)
Better be safe than sorry. And for the 5 minutes it takes me per week I can sleep quietly. Last time I reinstalled (a 3 year old Vista which was all buggy), it took me 3 days until I fought my way thru the 400 updates, all the program installations and system and program settings. No need to do that more frequently.
Hi whs,
You might want to give this a whirl How to use DiskRestore to restore a disk image
Thanks SIW2. Another to do - LOL. It may come in handy when I transfer Vista to my 80GB Intel SSD on one of my laptops when I am back in Germany. Although I have to find out whether it can move a 150GB partition to an 80GB disk. If not, I'll just use Ghost Copy. That can adjust to size.
To restore macrium image to a smaller drive, use Roborestore - it does a file level restore and recreates the hard links and updates bcd .
64bit Download
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You can run it from within WiPe as well.
It does take quite a while - maybe 4 times as long as normal macrium restore.
There is a much, much easier way:
I assume you have a lot less than 80gb data on your 150gb drive?
Use Disk Management to shrink the 150gb drive to just under the size of the 80gb disk ( 75gb will do ).
Then make a macrium image.
Use Disk Management to extend the 150 gb drive out again .
The macrium image will now restore to the 80gb drive in the normal way.
[ If Disk Management won't allow that much shrink - then use Partition Wizard or Paragon to shrink it. I have done it plenty of times without the slightest problem. You have a backup image anyway. ]
Sounds like a good idea. Let me study it - I still have 4 weeks. And thanks again.
I know. That's no problem. I will align and quick format the partition before I transfer the system. But thanks of reminding me.
For anybody reading the thread, here is how you do the alignment:
1. diskpart (in cmd)
2. list disk
3. select disk X (being the SSD)
4. clean
5. create partition primary align 128
6. active
7. exit