I successfully cloned my 128GB SSD to a new 256GB SSD using Paragon-Migrate (great simple $20 software, btw.)
New SSD is in laptop and works great, but one unintended consequence is that the process seems to have "collapsed" the "D: Recovery" partition. IOW, when I went to My Computer (on the old 128 GB SSD), I used to see:
- Windows (C: ) ~100GB capacity
- RECOVERY (D: ) ~25GB capacity
But now, post migration, in My Computer, all I see is:
- Windows (C: ) ~232GB capacity
I think the "problem" is that during the Paragon migration process, I clicked the top radio box in this screen: "Use all available space for the partition with OS". I assume that that had the effect of telling Paragon to clone the entire 128GB drive onto a single partition on the new SSD, rather than keeping the separate C: and D: partitions, right?
All I want to know is whether I should care at all that the Windows (C: ) and RECOVERY (D: ) partitions seem to have gotten collapsed into a single WIndows (C: ) partition on the new SSD. Will this impact my ability at all to reinstall WIndows (v 8.1) if I want to do a factory reset? My laptop didn't come with any Windows reinstallation media, so I'd have to rely on the onboard recovery process, and I want to make sure I didn't lose any ability on that front...
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After reading first 2 replies, adding the image below b/c it's what i see in "Disk Management" with both the new 256 SSD installed, and the old 128 SSD in a USB enclosure: As you can see, the RECOVERY (E: ) partition didn't get cloned over (well, at least not in a separate partition), *BUT* there is that 400MB "Healthy (Recovery Partition) thingy...is that the portion that's responsible for allowing me to do a factory re-set? Or as I originally suspected, do I need that E: partition that I seem to have collapsed?
New SSD is in laptop and works great, but one unintended consequence is that the process seems to have "collapsed" the "D: Recovery" partition. IOW, when I went to My Computer (on the old 128 GB SSD), I used to see:
- Windows (C: ) ~100GB capacity
- RECOVERY (D: ) ~25GB capacity
But now, post migration, in My Computer, all I see is:
- Windows (C: ) ~232GB capacity
I think the "problem" is that during the Paragon migration process, I clicked the top radio box in this screen: "Use all available space for the partition with OS". I assume that that had the effect of telling Paragon to clone the entire 128GB drive onto a single partition on the new SSD, rather than keeping the separate C: and D: partitions, right?
All I want to know is whether I should care at all that the Windows (C: ) and RECOVERY (D: ) partitions seem to have gotten collapsed into a single WIndows (C: ) partition on the new SSD. Will this impact my ability at all to reinstall WIndows (v 8.1) if I want to do a factory reset? My laptop didn't come with any Windows reinstallation media, so I'd have to rely on the onboard recovery process, and I want to make sure I didn't lose any ability on that front...
****************EDIT*****************
After reading first 2 replies, adding the image below b/c it's what i see in "Disk Management" with both the new 256 SSD installed, and the old 128 SSD in a USB enclosure: As you can see, the RECOVERY (E: ) partition didn't get cloned over (well, at least not in a separate partition), *BUT* there is that 400MB "Healthy (Recovery Partition) thingy...is that the portion that's responsible for allowing me to do a factory re-set? Or as I originally suspected, do I need that E: partition that I seem to have collapsed?
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