immaging drive question

[seagull]

Acronis says "The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one"

My problem is my new destination is 20gig smaller than my source.

Is there any software that will only source the info. The source is less than 1/2 full

[glc]

Are you trying to clone or image? What version of Acronis?

[seagull]

George I just down loaded ATI wd edition.

This is the same Acer LT that HD crashed and I installed a WD250GB in I am trying to clone W/7 back to it from my wifes PC and her HD larger capacity. Hence the message ATI gave me.

[glc]

Try creating an image instead - onto an external drive or something. Then restore the image.

[seagull]

Ati will not image ,copy or clone as long as it is not an equal or larger drive. That is why I asked if there wa any other software out there that will.
Otherwise I will have to buy win 7 disc and that is not fair because of a bum drive. All ready paid for it once

PS it is just barley out of warn-tee

stay safe

doug

[EzyStvy]

Originally Posted by seagull Otherwise I will have to buy win 7 disc and that is not fair because of a bum drive. All ready paid for it once

Where is the Win7 disc you used before?

[strollin]

Deleted.

[glc]

You can create an IMAGE as long as there's enough room on the target drive for it. An image is a single compressed file.

[seagull]

I have the new drive installed. I will take it back out. How do I uncompress it. I know these are dumb questions George but I do not want another PC down. If I only had a CD/ USB image I would be home free.

[glc]

You RESTORE the image using Acronis. Make the boot media.

[seagull]

Well I guess I don't know how to use Acronis.

The WD edition only gives me the option to clone. And anything else I try is greyed out because the target drive is smaller than the main drive I am trying to image from

[glc]

WD Support

Key Features of Acronis True Image WD Edition Software:
Drive Cloning - Copies the source drive to a new WD drive, leaving all data on the source drive.

Drive Migration - Erase the source drive after the new WD drive has been imaged.

Drive Deployment - Enables users to prepare a WD drive so that selected folders or partitions can be excluded from the destination image.

Drive Image Backup - The long-term usage of the Drive Kit software will be to provide full drive image backups of a source drive at any time. Backup drive images will be stored as a file, which can be copied to any direct attached drive, network attached storage drive or optical media (CD/DVD).

Drive Image Recovery - The Recovery Manager enables users to restore a drive image from a direct or network attached drive. The Recovery Manager can also either erase just a portion of the drive to be used for the restored drive image, or all of the previous OS.

Create a Bootable Standalone Recovery Manager - With the Drive Kit software, users can create a bootable ISO image file, which contains the WD Drive Kit Standalone Recovery Manager software.

Recover a Drive Image from the Bootable Recovery Manager Software - The bootable Standalone Recovery Manager enables users to recover a drive image from either a CD/DVD drive, a direct attached drive, or a network attached drive.