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Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller)

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I have a 500GB drive which is about 50GB full. I got a 80GB SSD, which has 74.5GB of available space. I want to clone the system drive onto the SSD. DriveImage XML will not let me copy a larger drive to a smaller one.

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Fix for: Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller)

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You could use something like Gparted to resize the partition on the 500GB drive to a size that will fit on the SDD and then copy the partition from one drive to the other.

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