Can't restore to smaller SSD.
I am having problems moving a system drive to a new, smaller SSD.
Here is my situation.
Source Drive: 1.5TB hard drive, 1.3TB in use.
Destination: 1TB SSD
I made a backup and excluded all the Media folders. The resulting backup is 400GB (compressed to 100GB).
But when I try and restore the backup to the 1TB SSD it refuses, saying there is not enough space.
The documentation and forums here say I should be able to do this, can anyone tell me what's wrong?
TrueImage 2015 claims the backup is 1.3TB in size which is clearly wrong as I can mount the backup image and it clearly only shows 400GB in use. Is this a bug? I don't want to have to actually delete half the hard drive before making a backup, that's what excluding files was for.
Thanks!


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I tried to recover it with the Windows app, and also made a recovery USB stick and booted off that. The recovery software refused as well, the SSD was simply greyed out.
Deleting 800GB of files and folders really isn't an option I want to take.
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As Pat has suggested you should attempt the restore process using the recovery or bootable media. That should get you around your issue.
EDIT: Please review this link for adding a new disk to your system. This step should be done prior to attempting the restore process.
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2015/index.html#3…
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