macrium reflect free restore image to smaller drive

If you need to make further adjustments, click the partition in the destination pane and then click. If you select the wrong disksuch as a secondary files drive, for exampleyou’ll lose your data. Be very careful when selecting the disk you want to restore to, as its contents will be erased. Under Destination, click Select a disk to restore to to select a disk.

In this example the backup of a 60GB disk is being restored to a 30Gb disk. Click Restore Image to restore the image to your hard drive. The 'Layout' toolbar button is available if the selected partition on the the target drive is a copied partition that can be resized/moved or a drive letter can be chosen after the clone/restore operation. After selecting your backup archive and destination disk, you can just select 'Copy selected partitions' and the partitions will be auto scaled to fit a smaller disk. In either of the above cases the toolbar option 'Fill Space' is also available.Įxisting partitions can be deleted by selecting the partition and taking the 'Delete Partition' toolbar buttonĪll existing partition can be removed by taking the 'Erase Disk' toolbar option, This option can be useful to free up space by deleting multiple partitions with one click, however, existing partitions will be automatically deleted if copied partitions overlap their start or end sector. This is obviously impossible if your disk is smaller than 50GB.

If free space is available after a copied partition then the toolbar option 'Float Right' is available. When you restore this is put back at an offset of 50GB. If free space is available before a copied partition then the toolbar option 'Float Left' is available.

Macrium reflect free restore image to smaller drive