macrium reflect not enough space to clone

So, I ran chkdsk /r on the OS partition, and it saw two errors, said there was not enough space to fix it, but said in the summary that no errors were found, which seems to be a contradiction. I moved the source and destination drives to my desktop with USB3 cables, and got the same Macrium error. Macrium failed with a read error, so I set the preference to ignore errors, but it erred in reading, anyway. So, I tried Macrium Reflect Free, after deleting a partition to get things under 232GB. It did not work with an external drive enclosure, and I found out that I needed a simple USB->SATA cable, like the Sabrent which I bought (very fast no complaints about performance at 450MB/s), but Samsung Magician played the Fool instead, and said it does not support Sabrent drives. When I first bought the SSD a year or two ago, it came with Samsung Magician which turned out to be Samsung Fool. I've been trying in vain to clone the 500GB HDD from my laptop to a 256GB 2.5' SSD.

I cloned Windows 10 to to smaller SSD last month. If that doesn't work then try paragraph two.ĭid you set your cloned SSD as the first boot device in BIOS? If it still doesn't work, you'd better use another alternative to clone your system. Using Windows install media navigate to a command prompt and try: If you have the appropriate partitions the disc should be able to be made bootable. I assume you are trying to clone a UEFI disc and have checked the partition structure of the clone. I image the C drive regularly with Macrium and it has saved me from myself several times. It takes a bit of understanding but you can restore a disc image to a different sized disc by specifying the partition sizes on the target disc. The disc image is faster to create and smaller than a clone. Rather than cloning with the free version of Macrium it has always seemed better to make an image of the disc you want to clone and restore the image. That can be done but not by simply cloning the disc. I assume you are not trying to boot the clone from a USB port.

Macrium reflect not enough space to clone