CLONE OR RECOVER?
Probably a simple question for most of you, but I can't get my head around this.
I have an Asus F75A laptop upgraded from Win 8 to 10, currently with 500Gb HD split into two partitions. I want to fit a 1Tb and have tried to clone with True Image 2014. The process gets to 4 of 10 and then fails.
I'm thinking my solution now is to recover the individual partitions, but there are another five partitions with no drive letter and no content (jpg attached). Four are marked "recover partition" and one "EFI system partition". Can I safely ignore these and just create two partitions on the new drive and then recover the active partitions from the old drive?
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Note: One of your Recovery partitions may be created by Asus and to be used to do either a Factory restore or to use to run any diagnostics from. You should take a look at the partition contents to see what is there?
I use a Linux live DVD (or CD) to do this - most modern Linux distro's should boot on your UEFI system though you may need to temporarily disable Secure Boot if this prevents booting.
See webpage https://livecdlist.com/ for a page showing a lot of live CD's that can be used.
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Hi Steve
Thanks for the speedy reply. I had already done a full backup and created a rescue CD.
I think the restore option is best for me. Also, I'm not too sure that I understand about EFI or Legacy booting!!
The other thing I'm uncertain of is how to partition the new drive before restoring. As you can see from the jpg file, there are no letters on the five small partitions. Will the restore process automatically create them? I don't see how I can create partitions without drive letters.
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Peter, with regards to EFI versus Legacy booting, this should be shown in your Boot override menu options (or one-time boot menu) depending on how this is shown on your system. Essentially, if you are booting from CD then you may see 2 different options, one with UEFI shown and one without - you should choose the one with UEFI.
With regards to restoring, then the restore process will create the correct partitions and sizes provided that you restore your backup in Disk mode (not selecting any individual partitions).
See sticky post: 128057: [Tutorial] How to recover an entire disk backup for details of doing a disk restore.
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Steve, thanks for your help. I've now completed the process successfully!!
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Peter, good to hear of your success, thanks for feeding back.
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