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Restoring to smaller HDD

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We are attempting to restore and image taken on a larger hard drive to a smaller hard drive. We have verified we have enough space on the new drive, but the program will not let us do it. It grays out when we attempt to choose a destination disk. According to our checks we should have 20GB of free space once we restore the imagine so we do not know what is going on.

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One thing you might try would be to use a partition utility such as the free Partition wizard.

Reduce the partition size of the larger disk to match the same partition size of the new disk.
Then take a new backup and restore the new backup.
You may want to check the larger disk for disk errors as an added precaution.

Perhaps you also have some Windows system checkpoints which could be removed?