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I recently had two 320GB HDDs on Raid 0 running on my main computer, and decided to split it in order to use one of the HDDs on another computer.
A windows system image of about 150GB was made on a 2TB external drive. The two 320GB disks have been formated and one of them is already in use in another computer.
When I tried to restore the image onto the formatted 320GB drive, I got an error saying that "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found".
I then learned that windows wont let system images from bigger drives (the 640GB raid 0 one) be restored to smaller ones, even if the image is smaller than the target drive. Resizing the external drive isn't really an option, since it's almost full.
Is there a way to still restore the image?
What was the backup program? acronis wouldnt have had that limitation, I have done all kinds of mixups with it. Also programs that can access the "image" file to change it a bit are usefull, so a person can toss something when it is an actual size problem. programs like XXclone (not xxcopy) could come in handy to shift this stuff around and still get boot, although I only tested it back before it was 7 capable. – Psycogeek – 2012-02-05T02:49:50.500