Originally Posted By: MikeK
[quote=Simon - PG Music]Thanks, Simon. That may be the way to go!


No worries, hope it works for you!


Originally Posted By: MarioD
Cloning a drive means make an exact copy doesn't it? So if you clone a 1 TB drive to a 2 TB drive will you get a 1 TB clone and another 1 TB partition? Or will you get a 2 TB C drive?

I have had success with Macrium Reflect. I tested it out on a couple of computers and it cloned the C drives perfectly. But I cloned to the same sized drives.


Most cloning software these days is not a 1:1 clone, mostly because a 1:1 clone would also clone all the empty space on your drive, but also because most hard drives are not exactly the size they say they are - for example one 240gb SSD could be 239,932,643,840 bytes but one from another brand could be 240,013,248,651 bytes. Generally speaking, a good cloning software should fill the empty space on the drive.

I've also used Macrium Reflect, but I haven't used it to duplicate a boot hard drive.

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