macrium reflect how to clone to specific partition

Thank you both again for the help and advice. Is there a chance the OS or boot data could be shared between these two partitions? My only worry is that on the Macrium dashboard, both the ‘system reserved’ and ‘C:’ primary active partitions have a windows logo next to them. Are you sure you want to continue?”Īm I correct in assuming the ‘system reserved’ Partition is the current boot volume, in which case I’m ok to continue? If you convert the disk(s) to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume). “The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). Which filled my old c drive)Īs I’ve gone through the process, a message saying: I’d intended to extend the primary partition (as this is the large partition which I assume has all existing photo files etc. In Disk Management, the 3 existing partitions have cloned: System Reserved (which I’m assuming is OS and boot data), Healthy (Primary Partition) and healthy (recovery partition). I’m just trying to expand one of the partitions as the remaining (nearly 1TB) of capacity is ‘unallocated’ and do not appearing on my computer. I’ve not tried to boot the system yet from the new disk. Is it safe to ‘delete existing partition’?Ĭloning now completed. The guide for Macrium says ‘delete existing partitions on destination disk’ but I was concerned this partition may be related to the SSD/HDD combination of the disk. The new Hybrid Disk appears to have an existing partition (16.0mb unformatted primary and 1.82TB NTFS Primary). On researching I decided to use Macrium Reflect to clone the disk, including the OS on the understanding I’ll then be able to make the New Hybrid disk the primary disk for the computer without reinstalling windows (as I can’t recall where my original key is for Windows 10).įollowing instructions, I’ve selected the disc to be cloned (checking the box to ensure all partitions are selected) and selected the new Disk to clone to. I’ve successfully installed the new hybrid drive and it’s showing on my computer. I decided on buying a Seagate Firecuda 2TB Hybrid SSD hard drive as it seemed good value and got favourable reviews, and in the hope that the SSD will speed up the computer boot-up and use a little. The main 1TB C rive is pretty full, so I decided to install a secondary, larger internal hard drive. I have a relatively old PC running windows 10.

I’m just wondering if it’s safe to delete the partition on my new hybrid drive?

Macrium reflect how to clone to specific partition