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Answer» The original HDD in my PC had a Recovery Partition D. Years ago I purchased Win 7 to replace my original Win XP OS when MS announced it would be ending W7 support. I subsequently upgraded to W10 when MS first offered the free upgrade. At some point my original HDD failed and I replaced it with a new WD HDD and deleted the Recovery D partition since it served no purpose. However, when I open Macrium Reflect, there is still a small 450MB NTFS Primary partition showing with 340.1MB of data. It does not have a NUMBER assigned. The Active Partition is 232.45 GB with 61.26GB of data...it is the C partition. Better yet create a fresh backup before the clone and save it to external... I do a fresh Macrium image every Sun morning and I keep the latest two on my external hard drive. I have always been backing up both partitions but I guess I only need to do the C drive, right?Correct...though a recovery partition can be handy Quote from: patio on October 12, 2019, 09:30:13 AM Correct...though a recovery partition can be handy Patio, how could I use it? What do you think is on it now? Old settings for W7? Thanks.True art...i thought about that after i posted...you don't need it at all...sorry long day.Hi Art Windows after Windows Vista stopped having the start of the primary partition at the beginning of the drive. So there is a small System Reserved partition which contains two important things. The Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data WITHOUT these included in your backup any restore will not boot. If you are upgrading drives you are better to transfer from a source drive to a destination drive with up to date software which can adjust the System Reserved partition size to optimize your SSD performance. Quote from: Lisa_maree on October 12, 2019, 10:23:01 PM Hi Art I found this which seems to be what you are talking about. https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-delete-the-450-mb-recovery-partition-in-windows-10/ If I do not use the on-board Windows recovery system, eg restore points, etc, maybe I do not need the recovery partition? The last TIME I had to restore my drive was many years ago when my internal HDD failed. I installed a new HDD and restored from my Macrium Reflect image. In that case I booted from the Macrium Rescue CD. Are you saying this restore process would not have worked if the Recovery Partition was not on the back-up image? What is the “up to date software”? I was planning to use Macrium Reflect Free. Since I don’t fully understand what the Recovery Partition does or does not do, I will include it in the clone. If it does not work I will repeat the cloning without it.Hi Art Here is a link to an explanation of the System Reserved partition https://www.minitool.com/lib/system-reserved-partition. Software like Easues partition manager and Paragon Disk manager both have the option to clone to SSD even smaller ssd's than the source. Quote from: Lisa_maree on October 13, 2019, 08:06:11 PM Hi Art Thx Lisa. I have used Easues before...worked fine. Is there any reason I can’t use Macrium Reflect to clone internal HD to SSD?No there is no reason not to use Macrium Reflect just I had forgotten about that program , But will be doing an evaluation as soon as thank you .I've used Macrium Reflect for perhaps a dozen or so transfers to upgrade, change, or replace a boot drive in a PC or laptop and it's done the job each time without a problem using the "Clone this disk" option. It's also useful for creating backup images. |
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