I want to swap the HDD for an SSD on my laptop. I made a system image on a 1TB external hard drive without errors and previously reduced the partitions on the HDD to 200 GB. The SSD is 480gb. When I wanted to transfer the system image to the SSd, I got the message, The disk set as active in the BIOS is too small… ". What can I do now? (Windows 10)
My advice:
Just do it with Clonezilla.
I don't really want to do it again
Then unfortunately I can't help you. Sorry
OK, thanks anyway
Something went wrong while transferring. What exactly is difficult to say.
"What can I do now?"
Start the whole process all over again and make sure you are not doing anything wrong.
I would do the following:
With the old HDD and the new SSD connected, boot an Ubuntu Live Image from a USB stick.
In GParted, reduce the partitions on the HDD so that a maximum of 400 GiB are occupied from the front (left in GParted).
In Ubuntu Disk Management, make sure that the partition table on the SSD is the same as on the HDD (GPT or MBR); if necessary redefine on the SSD (select SSD in the disk management and and above via Action / Extra (or similar) partition table (or similar))
Then in the terminal, mirror the HDD to the SSD using dd; e.g. If (IMPORTANT! Can also be different!) The HDD is / dev / sda and the SSD is / dev / sdb:
sudo dd if = / dev / sda of = / dev / sdb bs = 4M
Wait until dd is finished (you may NOT get a progress indicator, this is normal and can take a while; dd is finished when you get an input column in the terminal again.
Then the laptop from the SSD should work if only the SSD is connected.
Then you can use the Ubuntu Live Stick to expand the Windows system partition on the SSD again to the maximum possible in GParted.
Thanks, I'll try tomorrow
You have to do it all over again, it can hardly be solved otherwise.
My solution does the same thing, just in a different way. (Presumably a bit more complicated for a layperson)
