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I have a image which was taken with clonezilla as SAVEDISK on a 160GB harddrive Now a newer version of the PC released with a 120GB harddrive, the space in use is just 20GB

Is there a way I can force clonezilla (or any other program) to manipulate the images 'original size' to 120GB or lower, so clonezilla can write it to the new PC?

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I don't know how clonezilla works, but if there are only 20GB of data, what is the exact problem you encounter? – Michael K Sep 7 '11 at 10:42
Since the image was taken of a 160GB disk, it includes a 160GB partition table, which won't allow me to override it. – Sander Sep 8 '11 at 5:56
Is there no way to 'open' the image and copy the data away? – Michael K Sep 8 '11 at 6:43
I have various .aa .ab .ac files (sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.aa till sda1.ntfs-ptcl-img.gz.ae) seeming this is the image of the harddisk, I think I can un-aa it into one .img.gz file, but then I need a way to write it back. – Sander Sep 8 '11 at 6:58
Then I am afraid, I cannot say very much here anymore. I do not know enough about clonezilla. I can only suggest you to ask this in the clonezilla forums/support. – Michael K Sep 8 '11 at 7:56
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If the space is not in use, go into expert mode and enable -icds then restore the image. It will skip the partition size check and will succesfully restore it (only if < 120 GB is in use).

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