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Can I clone primary partition of 160GB drive to partition <500GB on a 500GB drive?

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Can I clone primary partition of 160GB drive to partition <500GB on a 500GB drive?

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As the title states, I am trying to move my primary (only) partition (which contains a Windows XP 32bit OS installation) from my 160GB hard drive to a single (bootable) partition on my new 500GB hard drive. (Once I get it done I plan to remove my 160GB drive, zero fill it, and sell it.) I downloaded the Seagate DiscWizard as suggested in the cloning/imaging sticky since all my Hard Drives are Seagate/Maxtor brand, but when I attempt to clone from the 160GB drive to the 500GB drive, it says that “the operation is possible only if the destination hard disc is empty. In order to proceed with the operation, you should either allow Seagate DiscWizard to delete all the partitions on the destination hard disc or click back and choose another destiation hard disc.” I already partitioned the 500GB drive into 4 partitions (35GB for Windows 7, 10GB for pagefile, 310GB for all other files, 110.76GB for the clone from XP). I was under the impression that I could choose to clone to a specific partit

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