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Is cloning Hidden partitions from HDD to SSD necessary?
Hi guys.
I have a one-TB HDD on my laptop and want to replace it by a 240-GB SSD and there are some questions about hidden partitions and other things. First of all in Macrium reflect, I see that there are some hidden partitions which I don't know what they are. The first question, should I select these hidden partitions for cloning to SSD beside the windows partiton? The second question, the windows partition has 415-GB capacity and it is larger than my SSD, should the entire partition be smaller than the SSD or just the amount of used space? in case if I need to shrink windows partition before cloning. Also there is a 25-Gb recovery partition which is not hidden and I want to know if I should select it for cloning too. You can see the screenshot of my Macrium below.