Clone hard drive to smaller one

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i need to clone my 250gb hard drive to a 150gb one

The 250gb one is only using 95gb of space so it would fit fine.

anyone know a program that will let me clone it to a smaller one? Seems all the ones ive tried want it to be the same or bigger.

The drive is sounding like its going to fail (lots of clicking sounds) so i figure i should do it before something bad happens.
 
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Is this including OS?

You can try migrating software eg http://pc-migration-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

or robocopy from cmd (Google it)
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Yeah its including Win7 OS, i want to clone the drive and be able to pop in the new one and run it like nothing changed.



I already tried drive image xml, it won't let me clone to a smaller drive.
 
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Did you use the Drive to Drive method? This method with Hot Imaging copies files only directly from HD to HD (or partition partition to partition). Using it with Raw Mode it copies the partition (files and disk space)... which method did you use?

 
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I tried macrium and it won't let me do it


AOMEI might but i'm confused about how it works.

does it shrink my original hard drive before trying to copy it over?
 
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it really should not affect anything to partition the drive. all the files would still run just as quickly on either partition. I have actually never had to clone to a smaller drive before (just cloned to a larger ssd earlier this week)

but to answer your question i do beleive you have to partiton the drives

after you clone the drive are you keeping all that info on the 250gb drive
 
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When you use "Hot Imaging Stategy" it copies only files so it does not matter if the destination partition/HD is smaller than the origin partition as long as it has space to accomodate the files... the Raw Mode copies the partition so the destination size has to be larger... so, which are you using?...

You can also use the Backup Mode.. this makes a image file that contains the files in the partition (OS and files), it can also compress files so your 95GB can make a smaller files maybe 70-75 GB in size which you can install with the Restore option on the new Hard Drive.

Still another option is what both i7Baby and fkr suggested... Shrink your C volume from the Disk Management and reduce the 250GB single partition down to less than 150GB, and next use the Drive to Drive option and it will not fail. It's a simple task that will not cause a single issues.





 
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