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Cloning a boot drive that has a recovery partition

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Trying to clone a 256 GB boot drive (Win 10 Pro) that has a small recovery partition.

Cloning it to a 1TB SSD.

Source boot drive has 237 GB partition with the OS (virtually full) and 857 MB Recovery Partition and 349 MB unallocated.

When I go to clone it with True Image - even when I ask it to do it "proportionally" (which would be fine), or "automatically resized" to fit the new drive, it gives me a 237 GB OS partition, and then the rest goes into the unallocated or recovery partition!  That's not where I need it!  I want it in the main OS partition. That's the point of changing the drive.  Try to clone it using "manual" and it doesn't make any sense.

Can someone help me get this done properly?

Thanks!

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BJ, welcome to these public User Forums.

This is a known issue that is easily resolved by using a partition manager tool.

Download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software - install this, then use the tool to move the Recovery partition to the end of free space on the new drive, then resize the smaller C: partition to use the available unallocated space.
Note: MiniTool will require the PC be restarted to do the resize operation.