Cloning a hard drive to a smaller drive

Stan_Lite · 22-02-2010, 19:39

Currently, I have a Windows 7 machine with two 500GB drives in RAID0 making a 1TB(ish) drive. I want to get rid of the RAID and transfer the contents to just one of the 500GB drives and use it with another machine (I've backed up all the files and removed a lot of stuff so there's only about 60GB of stuff on there (mostly Windows files and program files)). I've had a look around and can't find much about transferring to a smaller drive.

Does anyone know if I'll be able to do it with any of the available software? I don't mind paying for Acronis or the likes as long as I know it'll work. I really don't want to have to re-install everything if I can possibly avoid it. The machine is perfect the way it is but I want to move the stuff there onto another one.

22-02-2010, 19:39	#1
Stan_Lite Stan, Stan the FLASHER MAN! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In bed with your sister Posts: 5,483	Cloning a hard drive to a smaller drive Currently, I have a Windows 7 machine with two 500GB drives in RAID0 making a 1TB(ish) drive. I want to get rid of the RAID and transfer the contents to just one of the 500GB drives and use it with another machine (I've backed up all the files and removed a lot of stuff so there's only about 60GB of stuff on there (mostly Windows files and program files)). I've had a look around and can't find much about transferring to a smaller drive. Does anyone know if I'll be able to do it with any of the available software? I don't mind paying for Acronis or the likes as long as I know it'll work. I really don't want to have to re-install everything if I can possibly avoid it. The machine is perfect the way it is but I want to move the stuff there onto another one. __________________ Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean I...