HI KEV

You seem to be fairly well on top of this sort of thing using partition manager etc
So I am sure you will be fine..

However I am not certain exactly what you mean when you use the term Clone
If you mean a disc image as in Norton ghost or similar .
And you take an image of say a 300 G drive it will contain all the FAT etc so when you put it on a 500 g drive it will make that drive only 300 G as that was the extent of the format and fat of the original.

I suspect that is the way Pg get their stuff on hard drives as a ghost image so you finish up with a drive size to suit the original image size not the physical hard drive size,

So to this end these days I usually format the whole drive or maybe split into 2 partitions if it is very large
( this makes for quicker back ups and defrags if not so much surface area to cover)
Then I copy my whole directory structure files and folders including hidden
to the new drive or partition ,
This way the rest of the drive is available to me .
Which it would not have been if I used a ghost image.
Just my take on this.
Best regards
Mike

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