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Is there a way to clone a disk of different size?!

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yalag

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Im in an urgent situaion where I just bought a new harddisk that is smaller than my old one. It turns out I can't clone the disk if they are different sizes. Is there a way? I've already tried a few programd like ccc.
 
If the source takes up more space than the destination has on it, then no.
 
Right... start by deleting stuff or moving it off the drive. Once the contents tke up less space than the formatted capacity of the new drive, try CCC or SD again. If that does not work, then try my above suggestion of shrinking the partition first.

Think about it reasonably... if you have a bookshelf, and it holds 200 books right now, and it's full, and you throw it away and go out and buy a new bookshelf that's half as big, why would you expect all your old books to fit in it?
 
mkrishnan said:
Right... start by deleting stuff or moving it off the drive. Once the contents tke up less space than the formatted capacity of the new drive, try CCC or SD again. If that does not work, then try my above suggestion of shrinking the partition first.

Think about it reasonably... if you have a bookshelf, and it holds 200 books right now, and it's full, and you throw it away and go out and buy a new bookshelf that's half as big, why would you expect all your old books to fit in it?
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Of course what you are saying makes sense but I have already deleted enough stuff such that verything fits into the new drive. The only problem is that the programd still won't let me clone saying that the max size of the drive is bigger than my new drive. It also doesn't allow me to resize the drive. Maybe bcause the drive is a raid?
 
yalag said:
It also doesn't allow me to resize the drive. Maybe bcause the drive is a raid?
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This would have been useful information many posts ago. ;)

EDIT: Did you try SuperDuper? I don't know about RAIDs, but in general, SD I'm almost sure still has the feature to clone onto a smaller destination drive as long as there's space.
 
mkrishnan said:
This would have been useful information many posts ago. ;)

EDIT: Did you try SuperDuper? I don't know about RAIDs, but in general, SD I'm almost sure still has the feature to clone onto a smaller destination drive as long as there's space.
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mkrishnan: I'm assuming the reason why I can't shrink is because my drive is a raid? So if I clone the whole thing to a external drive, then I should be able to shrink it? I do remember doing some shrinking with HFS+ so this should be ok right?

Then once I have a shrinked drive, I can clone it back to my new internal drive?
 
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