When you Clone a hard drive, you can boot from the target disk on the same system after cloning.' For example, Upgrading to a larger hard drive or moving from a large magnetic hard disk to a smaller and faster SSD. 'Cloning with Macrium Reflect creates an exact copy of partitions to a different drive. With Macrium, it takes only the actual used data. They advise to drag and drop when moving from a larger to a smaller, but then it does leave behind the small partition, which presumably might be important. If you do that, it will just immediately tell you there is not enough disk space. Sadly that isn't the way to do it when moving from larger to smaller.

I mean, honestly I'm really not sure what's keeping it from accepting the new image. I've formatted it, and created a partition and marked it active. Really, I have no idea why the SSD won't accept the image. I've created (successfully) a full backup image to an external drive, and tried restoring it to the SSD, but again it failed immediately after the SSD TRIM. I have used the advanced options in Macrium to 'Ignore bad sectors when creating images' (and of course did it first without checking that box). I've tried everything I can think of, I've reformatted and run Optimize on the new SSD. IT occurs immediately following the SSD TRIM when it's copying over some file (will have to try it again to get the exact name but I think it's $MFT. Restore failed - write failed - 22 - Invalid argument - WriteFilemSystemData failed - pDataRun = Null-RemapMFTRecord failed However, each time I get the following error:

I can drag and drop the partition I want on to the smaller SSD, and start the process. I have been trying to use Macrium Reflect without success. I'm going from a 1TB Seagate with about 50GB of total data on it, to a 120GB SSD. So I'm trying to clone my boot drive to a new SSD.

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