Cloning HDD to SSD drive geometry Macrium Reflect

cormanaz

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I am trying to clone an existing HDD to a SSD using Macrium Relfect. When I select the destination disk, I get a pop-up giving me the choice to use the source disk geometry (recommended if booting the cloned disk in the same PC, which I am) or use destination disk geometry (if boosting in different PC). Both are formatted NTFS.

I don't want to make wrong choice and screw up the SSD performance, and I have seen some posts about BIOS misreporting drive geometry. I don't know what "drive geometry" means, and there is nothing in their help files about it. Should I follow their recommendation to use source disk geometry?
 
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Macrium is easy to use. When you clone the disk and you select a source disk, if there are paritions on it already i delete them. if it is a fresh clean disk, just click on the disk and just hit next/finish. Don't worry about the partitions or any other settings. It is that easy.
Macrium is easy to use. When you clone the disk and you select a source disk, if there are paritions on it already i delete them. if it is a fresh clean disk, just click on the disk and just hit next/finish. Don't worry about the partitions or any other settings. It is that easy.
 
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