How to clone a larger drive to a smaller drive in Macrium Reflect

Hey guy's R4GE VipeRzZ here and today I'm going to show you how you can clone a large drive to a smaller drive in Macrium Reflect. This will only work if the amount of used space on the large drive is small enough to fit onto the smaller drive. To make the large drive fit onto the small drive we will reduce the amount of free space on the main partition.

[BruceRoy-rcpu]

Great video, don't get any easier than this to follow and perform. Thanks so much!

[davelahoud]

perfect - straight to the point and super helpful

[OShackHennessy]

Best and simplest explanation on this topic. Thanks for a great video!

[santhoshm]

hey man ! Thank you so much i was searching a lot to clone os from larger to smaller disk.. I finally found your video which helped me in os cloning

[jaunpretorius]

Hey thanx man very helpfull short and straight to the point top marks🎉

[groovejets]

Just what I wanted to know. Great video, thanks for the effort 👌

[ltonchis]

best tutorial so far! other tutorials want to you to open cmd bla bla bla, it's not needed! everything is in the software! thanks!

[SchubertDipDab]

Excellent, just what I needed - thanks so much! :)

[dowopper]

What a great video, sir you made it so easy for me thank you!

[AbdullahMamun]

Succinct and easy to follow. Thank you so much!

[Stewthewineguy]

Thank you for this explanation. You rock!

[heathbarker]

Thanks for posting.... *Great tutorial.*

[andrewfuller]

This is a super succinct video, thanks

[alecm]

Thanks, Im sure I did this years ago but forgot how I did it.

[Mhl]

What I don't understand is why the software does not allow this process automatically, when selecting "extend or resize the partitions to fit into the destination disk".
It should be the exact purpose of this operation, but it warns you that "there is not enough space", of course there's not! That's because i purchased a smaller disk cause i do not need more than 250 GB (i only use around 100, system included).

If it wasn't for your clear and concise guide, i would have thought that i made some kind of stupid mistake and my new disk wasn't fit for the purpose. Thank you very much!

[some]

Spent hours deleting files to make HDD same size as my ssd😂

Nonetheless, Great video and Thank you!

[ProductionZonePauline]

If my source drive is BL encrypted and the clone will also be encrypted does Reflect show the BL recovery key (&ID) for the cloned drive, for making a note of, so the drive can be accessed directly later (or is that done thru Windows). Thanks.

[emilleonen]

Is it possible to clone your OS? Larger to smaller drive?

[ericreynoldsred]

what should i do if the process stops at 30% with "error 0 - Write failed - 433 - A device which does not exist was specified."

[hugeslacker]

Boooo why doesn't this work for ext partitions