Restore dmg image problem

Running disk utility after apple startup disk. Created image of my HD and it is about 100GB. I have a 320 GB drive. Created a small 30GB partition after formatting and left 290GB. Image won't restore to the 290GB partition...says "not enough space".
Plenty of extra space for the image...but the image was taken from the 320gb before I did the 30gb partition. I can delete that partition and then it will work...telling me that my image requires every bit of the 320gb hard drive.
Any idea on how to make a 100gb backup image fit on a 290 GB partition not requiring the original 320 GB drive?

Hi milehigh,
download a (I think) free CCC utility app. (Carbon Copy Cloner.app) and that will accommodate what you want to do.

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Hello. My MacBook Pro has OSX Lion on it.
I have created a DMG image of my starting volume using Disk Utility. The image was saved on an NTFS formatted external USB disk. I used Paragon NTFS for Mac to activate writing on NTFS partitions. The image was created, tested and it mounted fine. It's size is 105GB.
I have restarted the system and am accessing Disk Utility from the recovery partition that OSX Lion creates. Disk Utility can see the NTFS disk and I can choose the DMG image as source and the partition on the internal hard disk as a target without problems but when I press the restore button and the Image scan process is going to start I just get an error that says "Unabke to scan Mac-OSX HD. Resource busy". When I try the SCAN BEFORE RESTORE command on Disk Utility on the image I am getting "Unable to scan MAC IMAGE.DMG (Not such file or directory)".
I have already erased my startup disk and really need to get this image back in place. It is the only backup I have of my data.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the fast answer. Excuse my question but are you certain of this? This would be a big job because I would have to:
1. Find another external hard disk. Most probably it will be NTFS formatted because this and FAT32 are the most common formats out there.
2. Find another apple computer to transfer the image to the other hard disk
3. Format my external hard disk as a HFS disk
4. Transfer the DMG image back to the HFS hard disk.
5. After this reformat my external hard disk as NTFS because I live in an hybrid world where PCs and Macs coexist and NTFS is a good bet for compatibility.
If you indeed are certain that that is the correct answer to this situation then I will move into it immediately.
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Restoring .dmg image from external to Mac HD in Disk Utility: "Unable to scan image (Input/output error)"

Hi guys,
So I've got a problem with restoring the image backup I did (using Disk Utility) of my 500GB HD on my MBP which was acting weird or maybe even crashed a few months ago. After creating the backup image and putting it on my external device, I installed Mavericks back to see if everything was alright (mainly the HD) and everything seems okay.
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The whole process starts fine and then it starts scanning the image when after maybe a good 10-15min in I get a message that says that it was unable to scan the image. I tried verifying the disk(s), everything came out "OK". Also tried scanning it through Images > Scan image for Restore... with the same results.
While searching I've seen people getting messages like "Unable to scan filename.dmg (Invalid argument)" and "Unable to scan filename.dmg
(Internal error)" but none have (Input/output error)
The screen grab is below.
I also came across something about using terminal/commands but I'm not that savvy with it, especially considering that those there had issues with either mounting or trouble finding the image.
I've also tried moving the backup image to a different external device 2TB and also the desktop because I read it may have to do with the format of the externals or maybe free space. But THEN I would get a message saying
"The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "Mac HD Backup.dmg" can't be read or written. Error code -36"
Fyi ALL my externals are HFS+/Journaled and the backup image format was compressed.
I REALLY don't know what to do next. Was it the wrong move to create a dmg image? Have I lost everything? Is there still a way out?
If anyone can help, THANKS!
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Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider. You may have to leave the machine there for several days.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional—ask if you need guidance.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
Apple also recommends that you deauthorize a device in the iTunes Store before having it serviced.
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed.

How to restore DMG image (advanced)

Hi guys,
I made a backup of USB key, which comes with my Xtreamer Ultra, I needed that key for another purpose. Now I need to make a restore of this DMG. Problem is, I dont know why, I tried Disk Utility, after the scan of image, anyway I can not restore it.
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Hi,
It may be that you have inadvertantly wiped the Recovery Partition D when sanitising the drive, or it may have become corrupt. Either way, you best option is to reinstall the OS using recovery discs as these will also re-create the Recovery Partition on the HDD.
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I encountered a problem with boot camp which couln't make a new partition for windows, because it couldn't move some files. It was a problem of defragmentation which i found surprisingly hard to solve. I'm a new mac user, and i was unable to find any defragmentation utility. Even the boot camp ask me to make and image of HDD, reformat it, and then restore from image. It was quite easy when i was reading it but after all i end up with new instalation of MacOS X without access to my files stored on HDD image.
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[email protected],
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