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Cloning to a smaller disk with TI 2014

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Having read "Restore a TIH2012 Backup to a larger or smaller disk" by the wonderful GroverH I have made progress in restoring the first two partitions.  I have booted off a CD and am using an externally connected by USB disk to hold a .TIB of what was a 750GB disk to my new SSD which is a mere 240GB.  

The first two partitions were fine as they were small, but the third is larger than the available space on the disk and so there is no space I can click onto - the unallocated space being less than the original partition size.  This would not be a problem if I were allowed to modify the partition size before selecting a location, but I am not.

Have I missed something ?  Is there an alternative ?  I am able to shink partitions with EaseUS on a temporary (3.5") disk but not one that will fit in the laptop.

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Eugene,

Are you using TI 2014 or TI 2012?  If you are using TI 2014, I should be able to help.  If you are using TI 2012, then I will still try to help, but I will have to do some research in the process.  A couple of questions:

Will the 240GB SSD become a boot disk?

How much data was on the 750GB HDD?

What mode was used to create the TIB file?  Partitions mode or Disk mode?

Regards,

FtrPilot

 

Thanks FtrPilot.

I'm using TI 2014

Yes the 240GB SSD will be the boot (and only) disk in the laptop

About 150 GB is in use including zero on the Data partition.

Disk mode was used for creation.

Thanks.

Eugene,

You will need to confirm the 750GB HDD is formatted MBR and not GPT.  If the 750GB HDD is formatted MBR, then all you have to do is a disk mode recovery.  See paragraph 7.1.2 of the user manual on page 109.  Before proceeding with the restore, read all of the information after step 6 regarding MBR.  If your 750GB HDD is formatted MBR, then you should select MBR & Track 0.  ATI 2014 will automatically resize the partitions.

Regards,

FtrPilot

This is now resolved.  The instruction here was basically to RTFM which I did but still got nowhere.  I then called Acronis support and Tippesh was very helpful and after a 2.5 hour chat session we had it nailed.  The resolution was to start again but this time boot off a CD and backup using the laptop the new SSD was destined for.  Then to restore in the same way.

We examined the previous attempt in some detail but can not come up with an explanation as to why it did not work.  The best thought was that the sector to sector flag had been set.  I certainly did not deliberately do that but perhaps I did so inadvertently, or there was some corruption - who kows.

Anyway, thanks to FtrPilot who responded here and took the time.

Eugene,

Thanks for the feedback and thanks for closing the loop.  I am glad you got this sorted.

Regards,

FtrPilot