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Clone 2 HDD of different size

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good morning

I have a little problem, I have to do the cloning of a 1TB drive to a 500GB disk. The space occupied on that 1TB is about 200Gb but it tells me that I have to exclude something from cloning.

How can I do?

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Hello Antonio,

If the actual used data size of your 1TB drive is only about 200GB then there should not be a problem with cloning this to a 500GB drive.

One option that you could try here would be to using Windows Disk Management to shrink the size of the 1TB drive to the smallest allowed size, as this will show you what size Windows thinks that should be.

You may also want to try running a full disk defragment of the 1TB drive in case that is contributing to the clone operation failing because data is spread too widely across the drive.