Cloning to smaller drive - what happens to system partitions?
I want to move from a 750 GB hdd to a 250 GB ssd in my laptop. I have done this in the past using backup and restore but I thought I would try cloning this time.
My question is: when using the automatic option to resize the partitions, do the system and recovery partitions also get resized? I used a different software program in the past that did this and while the system still worked, the system partition got too small to allow for an upgrade from one windows version to the next. I had to use a partition manager to readjust sizes to allow it to work.
I might just use the manual method to make sure those partitions don't shrink from their original sizes, but I'd like to know how the automatic procedure actually works and if there is any accounting for system partitions.
Thanks.


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Thanks for the tips. Size wasn't an issue in this case.
I decided to use the backup and restore method after all. It turns out that the program figures out which partitions to resize and which to keep unchanged. I had 5 partitions: a system partition, 3 different recovery partitions, and the main OS partition. Using the automatic approach of selecting the entire disk to restore it figured out to keep the four system/recovery partitions unchanged and shrunk only the main OS partition.
It could not have been simpler. It just worked.
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Darryl, glad to read of your successful migration to the new drive, thanks for the feedback.
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