macrium reflect free 6 restore image to smaller drive

Your file system may scatter your data across your partition in fact NTFS puts meta data in the middle. It doesn't just contain the data it also contains the entire structure of your partition and file system. Or, you can delete the partition(s) on the disk and restore to the entire empty disk capacity.Ī disk image is an exact representation of the sectors on your imaged partition. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and click all the boxes for the disk. If you've repartitioned the original disk to a different size then you can also select any empty space before and after the partition to increase the available space to restore to. You should have no problem restoring back to the original disk. You should only purchase software that meets your requirements.Īll your data is recoverable by mounting the image or restoring to a drive of at least the same capacity. As long as USED space doesn't exceed target drive capacity, Macrium should be able to restore the data. Different drives from different vendors format to slightly different capacities. WHAM! you are s-t out of luck, cannot restore. then format 931gb drive and try to restore. I did a test backup 931gb drive -> 930gb drive. I will absolutely not purchase this software until this capability exists.

It's a limitation that we are going to address in a future release. I'm afraid it isn't possible to restore an image to a smaller disk. Is there any way I can restore this image to a smaller drive with reflect?

I'd like to restore it to a 79gb scsi drive but from the Linux boot disk it says that I must select a drive with 182gb to procede.

I've created a disk image of my SATA drive, the size of the drive is 182gb, total used however is only 10 gb.

Macrium reflect free 6 restore image to smaller drive