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Rainbrew
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So I have my boot usb ready to go with clonezilla in it and the linux thing and everything, however I have one technical question. Before reading up on the subject I made a partition on my new HDD matching my old one, that being a 250gb one for windows and 700gb for other files. Will Clonezilla have any trouble with moving files from the old drive to the new one due to the partitions I made? Do I have to format the drive and make it one big partition again? Thanks in advance! (please help fast it's midnight where I live I want the drives to clone overnight and I want to sleep kthnx)

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You can clone only the OS partition if you want.

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12 minutes ago, Rainbrew said:

I'd like to clone both, does that mean I'll have to run this twice for it to clone both partitions?

No. It'll do all the partitions that you select.

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53 minutes ago, Rainbrew said:

So I have my boot usb ready to go with clonezilla in it and the linux thing and everything, however I have one technical question. Before reading up on the subject I made a partition on my new HDD matching my old one, that being a 250gb one for windows and 700gb for other files. Will Clonezilla have any trouble with moving files from the old drive to the new one due to the partitions I made? Do I have to format the drive and make it one big partition again? Thanks in advance! (please help fast it's midnight where I live I want the drives to clone overnight and I want to sleep kthnx)

Nope, what I would do is simply allow Clonezilla to completely wipe your new HDD of partitions you created.

You can tell Clonezilla to clone everything from the old drive to the new one, including partitions and such, all in one step.

Obviously this assumes the new drive is the same size or bigger than the old drive.

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