hi i want to restore an image of my ssd 250gb samsung drive with windows 10 to a new 860 samsung 1Tb i would like to restore the image and have 500gb free in short restore the entire drive to 500gb should i restore the 250gb drive and after resize the windows 10 partition ? i have image for windows/linux (included partition work ) and the last version of macrium reflect i have used image for linux with these settings thanks https://i.imgur.com/QbNXXrl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IMUkaJl.jpg
@mantra if you're planning to use it as an os partition and not going to store data on it, 250gb is more than enough for w10. aamof, 100gb will do fine. but if you still wanna resize that partition, do it when you're restoring from that image. http://reflect.macrium.com/help/v5/how_to/restore/restore_partitions_with_resize_and_reorder.htm
hi @imdb well the 250gb ssd drive is old , and 1tb is too much , i don't want to restore in 250gb and leave the other 750 unused space i'm thinking to restore in a 500gb partition (included the windows re ,windows 10 and System reserved partition) resizing the windows 10 parition online (with windows disk menagement ) of off-line (with other tool i have terabyte BIBM) is not the best way ,isn' it? thanks
i understand that you wanna discard the old ssd. you can create two partitions, 100gb (or 250gb) and ~900gb (or ~750gb). then you can restore your image to the smaller partition and use the other one as data partition. resizing the partition via mac-ref would be much better than doing it via disk manager. i always do it that way and never had an issue so far.
macrium reflect. you can use any 3rd party tool or windows disk manager to create partitions on your new disk. that"ll be fine. then you should use macrium to resize the source (image) partition.
hi macrium reflect does only create partitions in the restore/image process ,doesn't it? thanks , appreciate you help
nope. you can use it to delete existng partitions and create new ones. you don't have to execute the cloning/restoring operation.
mantra, If you decide to use IFL I need some more details. Can you post a screenshot of Disk Management for your 250 GB SSD? Make sure we can also see % Free.
hi Brian i haven't it anymore , i remember System reserved partition 500mb - windows 10 237104MB (44gb of data) - 868 windows re - 1mb free space i have taken a photo of image for linux partition work may i ask a question ? if you have seen my first screenshot ,i have used scale to fit and scale to target , can i resize windows 10 partition with bibm or can i restore to a smaller ssd in the future ? thanks
OK. I'd restore your image to the big SSD but don't select Scale to Fit or Scale to Target. I think having a 500 GB Win10 partition is a waste of internal partition Free Space. It's better to have the Free Space outside of the partitions so it can be used for other purposes such as Data partitions or other OS. This is what I'd do... Restore the image with IFL. Use IFL PartWork to resize the Win10 partition to 100 GB. Slide the WinRE partition up to the end of the Win10 partition. Now you will have an 800+ GB area of Free Space. That's good.
Hi @Brian K but what os could i install ? and how can i slide the winre partition up to the end of w10 parition? thanks Brian
Several Linux OS or a test Win10 OS. In PartWork select the WinRe partition click Slide make Free Space Before 0 OK Continue Close
hi @Brian K but is it safe to resize only w10 partition with bibm or image for linux(partition) ? does it allign all the other partitions for the ssd automatically correcly? or is better to resize when i restore an image? thanks
hi @Brian K but if i buy another ssd 500gb (now are cheap , i bought the 1tb just because it costs me like an 500gb) ,just to know is easy to restore 1tb windows 10 to a 500gb without any issue (with image for linux/windows compact or macrium reflect)? and i don't think to install other os , i guess i will leave free space thanks
Hi @Brian K do you think the drive will use the unallocated free space to lower the Wear leveling ? that's why i bought a bigger ssd thanks
@mantra why don't you just create a bootable mac-ref media (usb/cd/dvd) and use it for all your resizing/partitioning/imaging operations?
It makes no difference with a SSD whether you have the Free Space inside or outside of a partition as far as over-provisioning is concerned. Just as long as the Free Space on the SSD doesn't fall below 10% of the drive size. A 1 TB SSD is good for about 300 GB of writes per day. You would be unlikely to exceed 10 GB of writes per day. So you will never wear it out.
hi @Brian K but will not use the unlocated space to optimaze it , because it will write on the 100gb or more windows 10 partition thanks hi @imdb i have used but i give me some error "invalid head and spt values exist in the PBP . fix it?" reported by bibm and partition work included in image for linux fixed with it thanks
