Incorrect data arrangement during the transfer to a new SSD
Incorrect data arrangement during the transfer to a new SSD
I don't see any issues, though I'm sure the recovery partition is off. I've never cloned before, so I followed Jay's tutorial on cloning a drive. Initially, I faced some problems booting manually from BIOS but couldn't set it up as a bootable drive. Eventually, I unplugged all other drives, restarted, and it worked. Then I used the AOEMI partition assistant to merge the cloned partition into the extra space on the new SSD. That part seemed confusing at first, with many unexpected drives appearing. Later I realized they might be downloaded games from Game Pass (possibly Microsoft). After reformatting the old SSD, I noticed my new drive lacks a proper recovery partition and thinks it might be labeled H:. I tried looking up solutions but my search wasn't helpful, so I'm worried about making mistakes on my own.
You didn't specify the reason for cloning the drive, which makes it hard to understand your point. If you did it properly, why would you go through the trouble of partitioning? I’d rather reinstall the system from scratch using a fresh W10, as it’s much simpler.
I installed a lot of stuff on the old drive and didn’t want to reinstall everything or change personal settings. It would have taken hours, but this took just 20 minutes—plus figuring out why it refused to boot. I had to adjust the partition because the original drive was only a 256 GB SSD, and I was cloning it to a 1TB SSD. The new drive would have a 256 GB main partition with the rest left unallocated. I didn’t realize when I reformatted the original drive that the recovery partition was mistakenly set to H:\\ after I had already merged the boot and recovery partitions on the original drive.
The tool I used (AOEMI Backupper) duplicates all partitions. If you want to adjust partition sizes, it’s likely available in the premium version. Could there be another free option that offers this feature? I’m not sure. For future drives, I’ll search for a free alternative that supports this capability.