If your partition file system is FAT32, you need to convert FAT32 to NTFS before shrinking. Tip: Disk Management can only shrink the NTFS partition. On the main page of Disk Management, right-click the volume you want to shrink, and then select "Shrink Volume". Follow the prompts to finish the remaining operations. Press "Windows+R", enter "diskmgmt.msc" and click "OK" to open Disk Management. If your source disk has not run out, you can shrink partitions in Disk Management first to meet the recipient disk. Shrink volumeĪs we described above, Clonezilla requires the destination partition to be equal to or larger than the source one. To make the process clearer, we divide it into three parts. It's admitted that using Clonezilla clone from larger to smaller disk is extremely complicated, please read carefully what you will read. Step-by-step tutorial: Clonezilla clone larger disk to smaller disk Tip: Due to the excellent performance and increasingly affordable price of SSD, we recommend you clone HDD to SSD using Clonezilla(whether larger to smaller or smaller to larger).
For example, if you want to clone a disk that is consuming 100 GB of storage, the target disk must have at least 100 GB available space for a successful clone. However, Clonezilla clone larger disk to smaller disk only is possible when the source hard drive fit the destination drive because Clonezilla only clones the used space to a second hard drive.
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