Issue: Have several hard drives (2-400GB) that only have 20-50GB of data on the drives.
I wanted to take spare 60gb hard drives and split them in 2, then copy/clone the larger drives to the smaller ones (assuming room to fit the data)
My initial try on this:
Source drive: 250GB SATA hard drive with 18.5 GB of data on it.
Destination drive: 60GB SATA with a 29.5gb and 26.5 GB partitions on it.
Setup - using a dedicated imaging machine running Windows 7 / SP1
* Hardware: Intel Core2 CPU, 4GB RAM and a 250gb internal drive.
* Ghost 15.0 with all the latest LiveUpdates run on it.
* Using 2 external USB drive adapters for the copy/clone.
* Also have a 1.5TB storage external drive (for images and other data backup).
When attempting to either clone the source driven directly to either partition on the smaller drive it errors out with:
Info 6C8F1C25: Cannot update settings.
--The selected destination is too small to hold the data.
(UMI:V-0-429-26666)
I then created a backup image to the storage drive and then tried to restore the image to the smaller partition and got this:
-Cannot copy data from the recovery point to the destination.
--Cannot read data from the recovery point.
---Error E0BB0004: Function Copy Volume argument Destination Volume is invalid.
(UMI:V-0-3215-1010)
If I do the restore or copy to one of the 60bg drives that only has one partition that takes the whole drive, it works fine.
I partitioned the 60GB drive using DISKPART and the Windows Disk management utility - same results each time.
I have searched through the forum here and other tech places on the internet and have not found a similar issue or question.
Thanks in advance.