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Clone disk stuck on exclude files

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I am trying to do a one time clone of an hdd (with Windows 10) to a smaller ssd and I want to exclude a single large folder on the cloned drive.

When I click next after selecting destination disk everything seems ok, however when I select the folder to exclude, everything goes downhill.

The bottom bar says "processing" for around an hour+ then says 0mb in the at the bottom. If I click next, I get a spinning clock icon as if something is happening. If I give that an hour+ to process, it finally disappears and I am left on the same screen. Is there any way to get past this?

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Do the clone operation from the recovery CD, not starting it from Windows.
Instead of excluding a large folder, could you copy this folder to another disk temporarily?

Thanks for the suggestion. At the moment I don't have any media for the recovery cd or an external drive, but I will give that a try next.