Issue cloning drive

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Alright gents.

So I have an issue cloning a 500gb drive (only about 95gb used, but it appears to have five partitions including a number of recovery partitions) to a 250gb SSD. I tried Macrium but it wasn't going to well (due to the size difference) and manually adjusting the partitions didn't help.

I then proceeded to try the Windows 10 tool, but that fails too.

I have however simply done a fresh install onto the SSD, however it's not my machine and there are items on the old drive which need transferring, programs installed etc.

Is there an alternative? I'm usually a Mac man with my machines backing up to Time Machine which is wonderfully easy, until I have to do some real work and get stumped!

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
Kol said:
I tried Macrium but it wasn't going to well (due to the size difference) and manually adjusting the partitions didn't help.
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You'll need to give more information. You can resize after you've dragged and dropped each partition. Why couldn't you proceed?
 
Thanks @KIA , so I tried resizing but when I switched the drives over it just said 'no media present' when attempting to boot from the freshly cloned SSD, despite recognising the drive in bios etc.

It's a Dell Inspiron, in case that makes a difference.
 
ED209 said:
Have you tried this guide?

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/macrium-reflect-cloning-guide.18576917/
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Thanks mate, did exactly that. I'm starting to think maybe the original drive had something else, I read Dell has a secure boot feature?

Quartz said:
Try doing a backup and restore.
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Aye, tried that too but each time I booted using it started to restore and said the drive (with the backup on) couldn't be found. All very strange.

Currently using the fresh install on the SSD until I get time tomorrow to try again.

Thanks for all your help guys!
 
Have you tried with Secure boot off?

turn it off and try cloning again to see if it makes any difference, having a quick search online some have said this must be off before cloning the HDD
 
Great, thanks @ED209 , looking back I don't think it was off before so let me try that again.

I'll report back on the outcome!
 
Chaps, it worked. I disabled secure boot, plugged in the SSD in my caddy, fired up macrium (resizing partitions in the process) and then cloned. Switched over and it's night and day the difference.

Much happier. thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
 
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