Clone without Copy NT signature and SSD

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If you clone a boot drive without "Copy NT signature" what happens? Does that mean the new target drive will be a duplicate yet the old drive will remain the boot drive.

If your intent is to make the target drive the new boot but you fail to COPY NT Signature, what steps do you do to make it the boot drive (besides doing the whole clone all over again)?

If cloning from a boot HDD to an unpartitioned SSD, will the clone process do an alignment automatically?

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Thu, 03/03/2011 - 18:14
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If you don't copy the Disk Signature, the cloned drive will be assigned a new one. This can affect booting, drive letter assignments, etc. Windows won't allow two drives to have the same signature. You have to decide what you want. Normally, you would remove the source drive and setup the new drive as the booting drive.

I assume that DD will automatically fix the booting links in the BCD to adjust for a new signature (if one is created). I have not tested it, though. You can adjust any drive letter assignments using DD.

As far as I know, the partitions should be aligned if DD is using the Linux Environment settings or Windows 7 as a selected OS. You can always check them afterwards to check if they are correct.

Tue, 03/08/2011 - 06:15