True Image for Crucial - Red X (disk C:) and strange partioning

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Hello,

First some background (some might be useful, others won't). I have a problem with my 11 years old ASUS K73SV. Its current drive is super slow (a 500GB HDD) and I decided to upgrade to a MX500 1TB SSD (should be compatible with my system). Since I want to keep my laptop going for a few more years, I started upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 (21H2) in advance. But it doesn't support TMP or Secure Boot, so I had to do a few workarounds. My laptop doesn't support UEFI too and I don't even manage to get in the BIOS to change boot orders (tried ESC-F1-F2-F8-F10-DEL multiple times...), so I had to upgrade from within Windows, without start-up disks, and with "MediaCreationTool.bat" to get a tweaked windows.iso. I don't know if this just tweaks the downloading process or some minor Windows-files themself, but all personal files were back-upped and Windows 11 seems to be running as good as my previous Windows 10.

Before cloning my HDD, Crucial suggested to run "chkdsk c: /r", what I did (no errors found, which surprised me since that disk is 11 years old and had run maybe 2-3 disk checks before) (I did not perform a check on my new SSD). After that, I tried a regular "clean disk", but the loading of the "Clean up system files"-window took far too long (30+ minutes and still nothinh), causing me to cancel it (via Task Manager) and start deleting files in "Windows.old" myself. Lots of folders/files seemed to be protected and I guess that folder is a mess now (I deemed the folder useless anyway). I tried to defrag C: too, but the process also took too long. I got really tired of all the long waiting and cancelled that too. I was planning to do further "clean disk" and defrag on the new SSD (because of the speed).

I want to clone my HDD now to the new SSD using the suggested "Acronis True Image for Crucial". I followed the steps as in their tutorial, but in the very end some strange things appeared:

  • The suggested C-drive is marked by a red X. Remember that "chkdsk c: /r" returned no errors (but after that I messed with windows.old and defrag).
  • The C-drive seems to contain 440,6 GB of data (its total capacity), but I'm only using 106 GB right now. I don't want to write too much unnecessary files on my new SSD...
  • The Recovery-partition (which I can't see in "This PC" btw) is allocated a whopping 490,7 GB. It's not what I want, and I'm afraid that space wouldn't even be accessible... And one more note: when I clicked on "Options", the Recovery-disk seems to have no letter, but a "?"...

I updated the firmware for the SSD, but that didn't help. All I want is to keep "Recovery" and "E: System Reserved" as tiny as possible, maintaining all possible space for my C-drive and clone everything just as it is now. I'm not a computer expert at all and I'm out of clues right now. I took a few screenshots which might help. Any suggestion what to do right now?

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Fri, 12/16/2022 - 13:51
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The problem is solved :)

In case someone would ever want to know what I did: clean disk (with system files) (took 3h on the old HDD), checked "sfc /scannow" (to be sure my Windows was genuine) ; ran "reagentc /info" to check on which partition my Windows Recovery Environment starts (I don't think you want to delete that) ; use diskpart.exe to check the size of that partition ; check diskmgmt.msc to see what partitions contains the system and boot ; delete all non-essential partitions (in my case: "Recovery" and "System Reserved:") and create 1 big C-partition, both with NIUBI Partition Editor ; reboot ; defrag (ran at night, something between 1h and 5h) ; reboot ; run chkdsk C: /r (again) (ran 3h) ; reboot ; use Crucial Storage Executive to check the health of the SSD ; start cloning with "Acronis True Image for Crucial" :D (took 1,5h for 90 GB)

Sat, 12/17/2022 - 16:50