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Merkey
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Hi, so I bought a new Crucial mx300 525 gb ssd to replace my current Adata 128gb ssd. I tried to clone it with Acronis true image 2015 and it really did clone, however it created two partitions:

  1. accessible 128gb partition witgh cloned files and system
  2. 380gb recovery partition (dont know recovery partition is)

I formated it again and the drive is completely empty. Some freeware like easeUS todo did not work for me, some errors occured during clonig.

 

Any tips how should I clone the drive?

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Did your Adata drive have a recovery partition?  Acronis could just be expanding it to fill the remaining space on the drive.

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8 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Did your Adata drive have a recovery partition?  Acronis could just be expanding it to fill the remaining space on the drive.

It did. Is it necesseary?

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7 minutes ago, Merkey said:

It did. Is it necesseary?

Not really know.  If this is a laptop though, they usually don't ship it with any sort of OS disc so the recovery partition is usually the only way to get "back to stock".

 

Just adjust how acronis resizes the partitions and have it resize the non-recovery partition and leave the recovery partition size alone.  There's sliders to do this (I think, going off top of head).

Workstation:  13700k @ 5.5Ghz || Gigabyte Z790 Ultra || MSI Gaming Trio 4090 Shunt || TeamGroup DDR5-7800 @ 7000 || Corsair AX1500i@240V || whole-house loop.

LANRig/GuestGamingBox: 9900nonK || Gigabyte Z390 Master || ASUS TUF 3090 650W shunt || Corsair SF600 || CPU+GPU watercooled 280 rad pull only || whole-house loop.

Server Router (Untangle): 13600k @ Stock || ASRock Z690 ITX || All 10Gbe || 2x8GB 3200 || PicoPSU 150W 24pin + AX1200i on CPU|| whole-house loop

Server Compute/Storage: 10850K @ 5.1Ghz || Gigabyte Z490 Ultra || EVGA FTW3 3090 1000W || LSI 9280i-24 port || 4TB Samsung 860 Evo, 5x10TB Seagate Enterprise Raid 6, 4x8TB Seagate Archive Backup ||  whole-house loop.

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