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Any Possibilities involving system images and different drive sizes?
Hi. The answers are probably no but I’m just hoping something could come up.
1.) A question I’ve had forever. Don’t want to get into details about the hardware issue and all that associated with different tower system image restores etc. Just dying to know, if I had a 500gb drive. And i made an image. And wanted to restore it to a 320gb drive. Is there any way with any kind of software are strategy? I’ve seen the refusal by advanced reset already.
2.) And aside from that. Might as well ask, if you wanted to install a 500gb image, to a 1tb drive. Yes it works but 500gb is not recognized by your os on the 1tb drive. It’ll leave it as if it’s a 500gb forever. Is there any way to reset that in a system, to restore a 500gb but expand it’s c: size on a bigger drive afterwards? Maybe even a cmd? Thanks
Yes, it’s possible, but it requires some finesse.
To fix this, you’ll need to extend the partition to utilize the full 1TB. Here’s how:
- Diskpart is your friend. Open a Command Prompt as an administrator and type diskpart.
- Use the following commands:
list volume select volume X (where X is the volume number of your restored 500GB partition) extend filesystem
- This will expand the partition to fill the available space on the 1TB drive.
- Note that this process won’t work if there’s an additional recovery partition or other partitions after the main one.
Another way:
- Use a tool like GParted (which works well for resizing partitions) to adjust the partition size on the 500GB drive. Shrink it down to a size that fits within the 320GB SSD.
- Once the partition is resized, you can clone it to the 320GB drive using a tool like Clonezilla or DriveImage XML.
- For the question 1: No. The restore drive should be larger in size than the original drive.
- Did you get it fixed OP? I need to do this on my computer too.
