Shrink partition

mattyfez · 14 Dec 2017 at 13:21

Hi,

I'll need to clone a windows installation from a 320gb HDD to a 240gb SSD - was goint to use Macrium free, but whats the easiest way to shrink the partition to fit before cloning?

The windows instalation & data is only about 100gb, do I shrink the partition to say 120gb, clone it then grow the partition up to 240gb once finished?

Thanks

On Holiday · 14 Dec 2017 at 13:43

I've done exactly what you've done many times with no issues.

Use the Disk Management built into windows rather, no need for any tools specifically to shrink or expand partitions.

bremen1874 · 14 Dec 2017 at 13:46

Macrium will shrink the partition during the clone (won't it?). Not need to shrink it first.

I just replaced the SSD in a laptop and the new drive was about 20GB smaller. Macrium handled it fine.

bledd · 14 Dec 2017 at 14:22

bremen1874 said:
Macrium will shrink the partition during the clone (won't it?). Not need to shrink it first.

I just replaced the SSD in a laptop and the new drive was about 20GB smaller. Macrium handled it fine.

Yup.

When doing any partition work, I'd take a full system image first. But I'm sure you already have a backup like this in place..

mattyfez · 14 Dec 2017 at 14:55

Oh right, I was under the impression that macrium couldnt hadle the partition rezizing, at least not the free version?