Cy Burnot wrote:
Stormin' Norman wrote on 11/1/2015 12:35 PM:
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.

Thanks.
What you want to do is, clone the entire disk, not just the C: partition.

Did I say "the C: partition"? :-) What is the proper way to refer to the
HD that contains the C: partition? I used "C: drive" but that apparently
misled you.

After you have cloned it, shut down the machine, DO NOT REBOOT IT, then replace the old disk drive with the new disk drive.

Not much to be gained by booting a computer with no HD, is there?

When it is up and running, fire up Macrium and resize your partitions to take advantage of the extra space on the new disk.

If I'm replacing a HD with one of the same size, what advantage would
there be?

Is there any reason to resize any of these "unlettered" partitions, all
of which appear to be empty?

40MB OEM partition
500MB EFI system partition
750MB Recovery partition
7.12GB Recovery partition

There is no need to resize any of those. Just
make sure they appear on the new drive too.

I'm not sure how the 40MB OEM partition interferes
with the process. The boot flag is on a
different partition than the OEM partition,
but it's possible the MBR code points to the
OEM partition, instead of to the actual boot
partition (the one with the boot flag).

The disk in question could be GPT, judging by the number
of partitions. And in that case, the number of partitions
is not an issue. Only compatibility with an old OS
would be an issue (not being able to read a GPT drive
from WinXP for example). Other than that, just
clone it and move on.

You can resize the C: partition as required. If the
space is not all used, you could make C: smaller. If
the new boot drive is bigger, then C: could be made
bigger.

The last time I cloned with Macrium, I think by using
the "Back" button part way through the process, I
was offered the ability to resize any of the
partitions, as well as pick MSDOS or 1MB alignment.
So you should have some capabilities there, if you
need them. If the C: partition is absolutely full,
then making C: smaller will not be an option.

Paul