My laptop was shipped with the wrong sized drive in it, and long story short, I need to duplicate the current (500gb) drive installed, and replace it with a new (1tb) drive. I have a disk cloner that I bought online, and I plan on transferring the small amount of files (and the OS) that I have on the smaller drive, and then booting from it. I have never done this before and I have a couple questions that I could not find answers to.
1. The drives are different sizes. i am cloning a smaller drive onto a larger drive. Will the clone be bootable? Will the size difference matter if the 1st drive only contains a trivial amount of data, so all of the information will easily fit on the other drive?
2. When cloning an OS drive, will the new drive be bootable? Do I need to do anything to change the cloned drive so that it will boot?
1. The drives are different sizes. i am cloning a smaller drive onto a larger drive. Will the clone be bootable? Will the size difference matter if the 1st drive only contains a trivial amount of data, so all of the information will easily fit on the other drive?
2. When cloning an OS drive, will the new drive be bootable? Do I need to do anything to change the cloned drive so that it will boot?
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