clone larger drive to smaller drive macrium

Or actually I just found a step-by-step guide I wrote, complete with screenshots, for dealing with this. As you note, it's already not much larger than it actually needs to be, which is fairly typical for that partition.

You shouldn't resize the Windows Recovery partition itself. Conveniently, the 'Cloned Partition Properties' pane that you use for this purpose allows you to resize a partition by telling it how much space you'd like to leave free on the disk AFTER the resize.

All you need to do is shrink the Windows partition (your C drive) by the amount necessary such that after the shrink, the Destination disk will have 811 MB free afterward. In that case, using the drag and drop operation you would start with Partition 2 on the Source and that would be placed at the very beginning of the Destination disk. Partition 1 is now dead weight on your system, so you could in fact skip cloning that one if you wanted. The reason you have 5 partitions is because your first partition is your original Windows Recovery partition, but at some point a Windows 10 feature release decided it needed more capacity on that partition, and since it couldn't expand that partition in that location, it instead shrank your C partition by the amount necessary to create the larger Windows Recovery partition that you see as Partition 5, which is the one that's actually in use now. You might also want to use the drag and drop method to get partitions from the source to destination rather than the Copy Partitions button in that case. Normally choosing the 'Copy Partitions' option and choosing to fit the source to the destination gives you a working solution, but if that doesn't work, look at how to use the Layout function to resize and shift partitions around when staging the destination. It even has a section specifically devoted to cloning onto a smaller target disk.

Or since you're on Reflect V8, which made partition resizing and 'shifting' a lot easier, you could take a look at this page to see how you can handle this.

A screenshot of your disk's partition layout would be helpful here. You'll probably need to manually shrink a partition earlier on the disk to leave enough room for that last partition. That happens if you have a small partition at the end of the disk where even the STARTING sector of the partition is beyond the end of the smaller disk, or if the partition can't be shrunk enough to fit on disk and still retain all of its data.

Clone larger drive to smaller drive macrium