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Restore disk image to a smaller size SSD with TI2010

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Situation:

The HDD of my laptop (Seagate 750GB) is damaged and causes my system to crash frequently. HDtune finds a lot of damaged sectors on the disk so I need to replace it. I intend to replace by a 500GB SSD.. I have a disk image available that is made with True Image Home 2010.

The image is made of the following situation:

partitions_b.jpg

My question is how to restore this image on the smaller SSD?

When I boot from the recovery disk, TI 2010, and I select the whole disk to be restored to the new disk, there is no way to tell TI that he has to reduce the size of the C: and D: partitions. i do have this option if I also select C: or D:, but can I achieve my objective then?

Do I need to restore C: and D: sequentialy  (and reduce the size of the partitions)? In what order? And what to do with the MBR? I assume that the partition table will represent the old situation (for the 750GB disk).

Any help is very appreciated!

 

 

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Bushmaster, when you say: "I have a disk image available that is made with True Image Home 2010." - is this a full backup image created from the current failing HDD as it is today, or is a backup created some time ago before the drive started to fail?

Looking at your Disk Management image, the D: drive partition shows as having 100% free space, so you could delete that partition, then take a new backup of just the small 25GB partition and your C: drive partition as a full disk backup which would then fit easily on your new 500GB SSD, and allow you to create a new D: partition in the unallocated space left over.

I would recommend running CHKDSK C: /R to try to reallocate as many bad sectors as possible before making the new backup.