Make Clonezilla clone to smaller drive possible

Officially, Clonezilla requires the destination partition to receive the clone to be equal or larger than the source one. Therefore, the only way to get this done is to shrink the source partition to fit the destination partition.

Clonezilla clone to smaller disk:

1. Open Disk Management in Windows 10/8/7. If you are running Linux system, you can boot your computer from GParted media.

2. Right click the source partition and click “Shrink Volume” and follow the wizard to shrink the partition.

3. When you get that done, reboot to Clonezilla.

4. Select the source disk and destination disk.

5. Choose EXPERT mode and enable the “-icds” option. You need to also choose the option”Resize partitional table proportionally” in one of the following menus.

6. Configure other Clonezilla options if needed and then type in “y” to confirm and start the clone.

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