There are 3 replies, with the last one on July 01 2014 at 13:25:33 by Seekforever
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If you have say 120GB used on a 240GB drive then the normal imaging only writes the used 120GB to the image file. There is another option where you can write used and unused clusters to the image file for special situations but that's not the normal usage.
As long as the new drive has enough space to hold the actual data, in this example the 120GB, then it will restore without any problem.
To add a bit to the formatting question: When a disk is formatted it only writes an initial file structure to the disk. Your image contains the file structure for the data included in the image so it is necessary to write that structure to the new disk thus overwriting anything the formatting did. This is a bit simplified but Reflect takes care of it all.
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If you have say 120GB used on a 240GB drive then the normal imaging only writes the used 120GB to the image file. There is another option where you can write used and unused clusters to the image file for special situations but that's not the normal usage.
As long as the new drive has enough space to hold the actual data, in this example the 120GB, then it will restore without any problem.
To add a bit to the formatting question: When a disk is formatted it only writes an initial file structure to the disk. Your image contains the file structure for the data included in the image so it is necessary to write that structure to the new disk thus overwriting anything the formatting did. This is a bit simplified but Reflect takes care of it all.