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True Image 2021 - Question re partitions on cloned disk

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I successfully cloned a 2TB HDD to a 2TB SSD on my Dell XPS 8700 this last weekend.  The source was the only drive in the system (other than the target, of course) and included the EFI partition, Recovery Partitions, etc. in addition to the main (C:) partition.  The Acronis cloning operation went well and appears to have cloned all of the partitions; I am now running on the SSD with no apparent issues.  I still have the source disk in the system, but I moved it to the SATA2 connector (the SSD is on SATA0 and the DVD is on SATA1).

My question concerns the number and naming of the partitions on the target vs. the source.  The source (disk 1 in the attached screen shot) had six partitions, five of which plus the C: drive show up in the Disk Management list of Volumes; the target (disk 0 in the attachment) also appears to have six partitions, in the graphical depiction at the bottom, but only two plus the E: drive show up in the list of Volumes.  The partitions that are missing also have no reported Status in the graphical depiction at the bottom and are labeled "Recovery Partition" on the source.  Is this normal?  Are the contents of those partitions present on the target disk?  Will recover operations work as designed?

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Andrew, welcome to these public User Forums.

The clone operation looks to have been successful both in duplicating all the partitions and in producing a bootable / working OS SSD.

Your original HDD looks to have a redundant old Recovery partition (490MB) along with a newer larger Recovery partition (841MB) plus also has a Dell factory restore partition (8.86GB).

The fact that the two Windows recovery partitions on the SSD are not shown as such may indicate that they are not recognised as such or haven't been enabled, only the larger one will be valid, the smaller is left over from a previous Windows upgrade.

You can use the command: reagentc /info from an administrator command prompt to check the status of Recovery.

See webpage: How to Enable or Disable Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) in Windows 10

Thanks for the hints.  It appears that WinRE is enabled (see attached) with a location pointing to partition6 on harddisk0; the recovery image location, however, points to harddisk1, partition7 (I assume that's the sixth partition, since there is no partition5 on that disk?).  Is this likely to bite me at some point?  I will try removing the cable to that disk and booting, just to see if it tells me anything different, sometime this weekend.  I would really like to see something that says "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" on all the relevant partitions on harddisk0....

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Andrew, I suspect that the recovery partition mix of drives comes from having two copies of the OS drive present in the system.  This is where the recommendation when either doing cloning or using backup & recovery (to achieve the same result) is to only have the target drive installed in the system, with the original drive connected via USB and then disconnected / removed before attempting to boot into the OS.

If disconnecting the cable from the second disk causes an error regarding the recovery partition, then doing an in-place upgrade of the OS using the latest build should correct that.

I disabled the old disk in Device Mgr, rebooted, and the old harddisk1 disappeared; the Recovery Image moved over to harddisk0.  I did a reagentc /disable followed by /enable sequence for good measure.  The Recovery Image stayed on harddisk0 when I re-enabled the old disk and rebooted. 

It all seems to work; the only difference is in what the Partition manager reports about the two disks.  I don't know why I don't see the "Healthy..." indication on the SDD recovery partitions, and why they don't show up at all in the list of partitions and volumes at the top.  This makes me nervous.