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Clone Windows partition without losing other partitions on clone drive
Long ago I acquired a 2TB SSD to replace a 2 TB HDD but with the intent for the HDD to replace the optical drive for extra space for gaming and how these became 100s of gigs lately .
So back then I tried to look up a solution for just cloning the system partitions as I had no plans to move all data but just have the OS run from SSD while continuing to access older data from HDD , the only software that seemed to manage that trick was Minitool Partition Wizard where it cloned the HDD's OS partition along with all other hidden system partitions but kept the rest of the drive as free space .
Now that it had been a while I was considering re-cloning of system partition over to the HDD to keep it up to date in case of emergencies . I could not confirm from any source that Minitool Partition Wizard can do that without affecting the rest of the data on the drive .
So yes the cloned system partitions are identical in size allocations but the rest of both driver have different partition sizes and data .
My experience with Minitool Partition Wizard isn't that pleasant as I have had it that several times it destroyed data without confirmation on certain requests hence why I need confirmation on this one , weather it would copy the OS partitions just or would rather delete the whole drive in the process .
P.S If you believe you do know of a better software to handle that then please share your thoughts .