Migrating to a new boot drive
My system is working fine but I want to migrate my main drive to a new hard drive. What is the best way to do this? Should I just do a backup and recovery or should I use the clone drive utility?
I started the backup and recovery approach but it is a bit confusing since I can't restore the MBR, system reserved and main partition at once. I am having to do it in 3 steps but I don't know if it will work
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That's what I tried to do but the drive but the drive isn't bootable. I guess I didn't do the MBR last. My drive has 2 partitions, the active one and one which is reserved. Do I have to restart the process or can I now just add the MBR?
It sounds like I should do the active (main) partition first, then the system reserved and then the MBR?
thanks.
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The System Reserved partition should be restored first, then the OS partition. Normally the System Reserved partition is the active partition on a two partition system such as yours. Restore the MBR last including the Disk Signature.
I would restart your restore procedure over.
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