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Will ATI 2016 clone MSR (Microsoft Reserved Partition) ?

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I want to clone my SSD (Samsung 970 PRO, 512 GB) to a 1TB Samsung SSD 980 PRO. I am on Win 11 and ATI 2016.

I have five partitions on the SSD starting with MSR (128 MB) on the left. I have two Recovery partitions. One that is active is the last one on the right (599 MB). The first Recovery partition was created when I clean installed Win 10, while the other was created when I upgraded to Win 11. It seems that the first Recovery partition is useless now.

Acronis does not see the MSR partition at all (see attachment). If I clone to a bigger SSD will it also clone the MSR (128 MB) partition ?

I am afraid that if it does not clone the MSR partition, I may end up with four instead of five partitions. That may cause WinRE Tools to refuse to load as the active Recovery partition would be Partition 4 instaed of Partition 5 which was active according to reagentc /info ?

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Acronis will recreate the MSR partition as part of the clone or recovery operation - normally as a 128MB partition at the start of the disk drive.

I recently upgraded my main laptop from a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB SSD to a 990 Pro 2TB SSD using Backup & Recovery and while ATI 2021 does not show the MSR, using MiniTool Partition Wizard shows that 128MB partition is there.

The MSR on UEFI / GPT boot systems is a throw-back to older Legacy systems and is just used as a place marker for all intents and purposes.  Boot information is stored in the EFI System Partition and your Recovery partition should be unaffected.

See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery. 

Steve Smith wrote:

 

The MSR on UEFI / GPT boot systems is a throw-back to older Legacy systems and is just used as a place marker for all intents and purposes.  Boot information is stored in the EFI System Partition and your Recovery partition should be uaffected.

That is correct. But is it possible that missing MSR may change partition layout and the position of Recovery partition. This in turn can prevent WinRE tools from loading ?

BTW, is there a solution in ATI 2016 alone to preserve the original partition layout of the source drive ? I mean without interventions in programs like MiniTool Partition wizard or AOMEI Partition Assistant afterwards ?

The MSR will not be missing regardless of the fact that Acronis may not show it in the backup Source or Recovery panels, therefore there should be no issues related to the position of the Recovery partition.

I remember some discussion in the past about partition layout but cannot find it at this time.

This issue has never been unique to a specific version of True Image such as 2016 and I have never needed to use a partition tool to make any changes to MSR.  What I have used MiniTool PW to do is to move my Recovery partition to the end of a larger drive after upgrading to one, and this has been synchronised correctly with the Windows OS allowing WinRE to launch correctly when needed.