Help needed with cloning partitioned Hard Drive

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stulec52

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I picked up a used Asus Laptop. It was a 750 Gig WD Black HD fitted, (currently with less than 100Gig used) Running Windows 10 pro
I'd like to swap out the HD with my 250 Gig SSD
problem. Current HD has 7 partitions.
I use AOMEI to clone drives, but it won't do more than 3 partitions.
SO, how do I copy all partitions? or how do I know which ones I can delete to get down to the maximum of 3??

Many thanks
Stu
 
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drtweak
You can use Macrium Reflect.

You might have to go in and manually move over the partitions and resize them as needed. It sounds like it is running a UEFI boot which I hate on OEM PC's, well not totally their fault, that is how Microsoft says to do it, but it is like 3 partitions, then the OS (big partition) then 3 other partitions, where as MRB is like 3 Partitions max with the end being the OS partition making it easy to shrink.

So this is what you need to do. When you install Macrium Reflect you can do it one of two ways. 1) Make a image of it to a External drive or 2) clone it straight over.

Either way when you get to the point where you select a hard drive select the SSD. If it has a parition delete it.

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You can use Macrium Reflect.

You might have to go in and manually move over the partitions and resize them as needed. It sounds like it is running a UEFI boot which I hate on OEM PC's, well not totally their fault, that is how Microsoft says to do it, but it is like 3 partitions, then the OS (big partition) then 3 other partitions, where as MRB is like 3 Partitions max with the end being the OS partition making it easy to shrink.

So this is what you need to do. When you install Macrium Reflect you can do it one of two ways. 1) Make a image of it to a External drive or 2) clone it straight over.

Either way when you get to the point where you select a hard drive select the SSD. If it has a parition delete it.

Uncheck the box Next to your current hard drive on the left. This will allow you to drag over what partitions you need vs the whole thing at once with wont work.

Now drag down each partition in over until you get to the OS which is the biggest one. You need to see how much room you have to leave at the end of it so see how many gigs that last partitions AFTER it make up. If you have like a 500 MB 20Gb 16 GB leave 36.5GB. The way you do this is drag down the OS partition. it will say (Will shrink to make it fix) that is fine. Then click on the partition on the bottom and then click on partition Properties. Then leave the 36.5 Left over. Then you should be able to drag the last partition down with ease. You have have to pay with it a few times but you should get it. Then just clone it once you got all of them.

 
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awesome, thank you.
The WD Black has OS Partition, Data Partition ( I get those) but then has 4 Recovery Partitions, and 1 EFI one.
If I could figure out which of the Recovery ones to delete along with the Data one, I think that would make the cloning process so much simpler.
 
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