Question about partition

[ice856]

I just bought a new HDD now i want to migrate from my old drive. I'm using minitool partition wizard and i see this on my old drive

I'm talking about the last partition with 859MB size and 388.88MB used space

in windows disk management it says recovery partition

 

and on the 1TB hdd the size is 5GB

 

My question is:

Do i need this partition? what does this partition used for?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Thats the boot/recovery patition. You normally need it.

 

What are you trying to do?

 

Best way to migrate is just to reinstall on the new(please get a ssd, there so much faster)

 

But if you clone, clone all the paritions.

[ice856]

2 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Thats the boot/recovery patition. You normally need it.

 

What are you trying to do?

 

Best way to migrate is just to reinstall on the new(please get a ssd, there so much faster)

 

But if you clone, clone all the paritions.

I'm moving my system to the new hard drive.

thanks for the tips i will consider when i have the budget.

[Yvette222]

The first partition, marked as "system&active", is your system partition. The second,  namely partition C, is your boot partition. Both system partition and boot partition are system required partitions.

The third partition (recovery partition) is related to Windows recover. It's better to keep it as well.

[ice856]

On 10/10/2018 at 12:30 PM, Skylly said:

Maybe you can refer to here:https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html

I tried cloning with this software but it always fail so i end up reinstalling windows its much easier

[ice856]

8 hours ago, Skylly said:

I'm glad that your problem has been solved.
Just reinstalls the OS, you need to back up the important files in advance.
BTW, Would you mind telling me more about convert failure information when you using MiniTool?  Recently I just bought it, and I want to install the double OS  on my new computer in order to improve my game performance. Thank you.

 

When i try to boot to the newly migrated os on the new hard drive, it show recovery screen like this

With a different error message.