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computing:storage:clonezilla

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Table of Contents

CloneZilla Image Utility
Restore to Smaller Hard Drive
- Create the Too Large Image
- Restore to Smaller Drive

CloneZilla Image Utility

http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php

Restore to Smaller Hard Drive

Not supported by CloneZilla but done successfully.

http://www.backup-utility.com/articles/clonezilla-clone-larger-disk-to-smaller-disk-4348.html

Create the Too Large Image

On PC with too large of drive, open Disk Management in Windows 10/8/7. If you are running Linux system, you can boot your computer from GParted media.
Right click the source partition and click “Shrink Volume” and follow the wizard to shrink the partition.
Shrink the partition to something substantially smaller than you think you need
Reboot to CloneZilla
Select working with images
Create the image using Beginner

Restore to Smaller Drive

Boot to CloneZilla with smaller drive
Choose working with images
Choose Advanced
Choose Restore image
In advanced options tick icds this disables checking destination disk size
After imaged on the small drive expand the partition to use entire drive

computing/storage/clonezilla.1485298997.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/01/24 16:03 by jcooper