Can Windows 7 restore itself from image to a smaller HDD than original?

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Published on 2010-01-20T22:13:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 15:43 UTC
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I've created a full system image using the built-in Win7 utility, it was from a 300GB drive but there is only about 50GB of data.

I then swapped disks in my notebook, the new one being 80GB SSD and now when I boot to the system restore applet, go through all of the settings (finding the backed up image on a network share, confirming that I'm willing to repartition my disk etc.), I get this:

The system image restore failed.

No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found. [Details]

Is this because I'm trying to restore to a smaller disk? (Even though the data should fit without any problems, there being only 50GB of it.)

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