On 21/01/2019 00.40, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:33:21 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." wrote:

On 18/01/2019 20.05, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:51:41 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." wrote:

On 18/01/2019 08.33, micky wrote:
Win 10 64 bits, Pro iirc.

I'm using Macrium Reflect Free to clone (not image) my internal hdd. It
has 4 partitions, two tiny and two big.

The two tiny ones seem okay and it's still working on the fourth
partition but the second partition, my boot partition is 194.15GB but
its clone is 186.29GB. On second thought, how can that be a clone?

Do both disks use the same sector size?

I'll check. The source was a 1.5T and destination 1T, both Western
Digital. Where do you find sector size?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9465451/how-can-i-determine-the-sector-size-in-windows

1 Run msinfo32 in command line that should popup a GUI window called
"System Information"
2 In the left pane select "System
Summary-Components-Storage-Disks". This should load info of all
drives in the right pane.
3 Find your desired drive and check the value for "Bytes/Sector". it
should say "Bytes/Sector 4096"

(but it may say 512)

But even if they're different, the 4th partition finished and that copy
was from a 200GB partition and the source had 108.01GB used and the
destination had the exact same number. So if sector size was the cause
for the 2nd partition, how come not the 4th

Ah, then I think it will not be the hard disk sector size, but the
cluster size after formatting the disk.

Both HDD's were 512.

I haven't had time to compare cluster size if they followed the rules
for 1.5T and 1 T wouldnt' they be the same?

They should, yes, but we are trying to guess what happened. :-)

Later I read another post that said some folders were protected (IIRC)
and did not display, but were copied, and then lost the protection, so
in the copy they display. Or something like that, I'm writing from memory.

I think these new WD drives came formatted and I didn't redo it.

But cloning software "should" reformat to match the original.


Google "how to find cluster size in windows". The answer depends on what
format type you use.

Obviously then "Macrium Reflect" doesn't exact clone, but adapts
depending on the circumstances.



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Cheers, Carlos.