In message , John Aldred
writes
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:15:10 -0400, Cy Burnot wrote:

If I clone my C: drive to another HD of the same or larger size, and
then remove the C: drive and replace it with the clone, should I expect
any glitches when I turn the power back on?

Using Macrium Reflect to make the clone.

The only thing that I have noticed when doing a similar thing with Acronis
is that Windows searches for a driver for the new HD and installs it.

I've been honing my disk cloning skills - normally using some old
clunkers I bought cheap to play with

Normally, the PC boots up saying that it has detected new hardware -
then after it gets going properly, it suggests you do a re-boot (just
this once).

With a couple of drives, the PC couldn't find any bootable medium. Both
came right after connecting them by USB to another PC (or the same one
with the original C-drive re-connected) and doing a 'Repair MBR' (many
disk utility programs provide this function).

But I have no idea why this was necessary.


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Ian