Big Al wrote:
On 12/28/18 9:27 AM, G Ross wrote:
My hard disk occasionally emits a squealing sound. I want to clone it
to a same size, same brand drive. My drive is set up as a C: drive
and a D: Drive.
Question: Will Macrium set on clone set up the two drives or will I
have to format and set them up myself before cloning?
Thanks in advance.

Clone will dupe the drive.

In the time it took to get your first response, you could have cloned
the drive already and just looked at what it did. "the proof is in the
pudding" logic.


Yup. Full auto. Rock and roll :-)

No screwing around.

All done for you.

No need for *any* spoon feeding of any kind.

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Macrium supports drag and drop of single partitions
from the source "line" on the screen to the destination "line".

In addition, using tick boxen, you can select an entire
line of partitions, and clone over. On OS drives, just
for your own peace of mind, tick all the boxes (including the
MBR box) and bring everything over.

If you clone a 1TB HDD to a 500GB SSD, it helps if
the C: partition is the *last* partition on the 1TB
drive, as you can have the length of the last partition
trimmed to fit automatically. If the "fattest" partition
is in the middle of the disk, it's going to take
more work to get a desired result.

You can drag and drop single partitions, in that case.

If you drag and drop stuff, boot the Macrium emergency boot CD,
then select the "Boot Repair" item from the Macrium CD,
while only the output cloned drive is present. After
boot repair, you shouldn't have a problem getting the
cloned drive to boot.

When you clone an entire drive by tick-box-method, boot
repair is automatically done for you. If you're attempting
to do "Partition Management" by dragging and dropping a single
partition at a time, Macrium cannot "guess" what you're
doing, which is why the manual boot repair from the CD
might be a good idea as your next step.

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For simple clones between like-sized drives, just
tick all the boxes and go for it.

Paul