Cloning C drive


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I'm going to clone / copy the 500Gb C drive in my laptop to another internal 2TB drive, so what do I need to do with the new drive after I install it and before i start the cloning process?
 

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Bikeit said:
I'm going to clone / copy the 500Gb C drive in my laptop to another internal 2TB drive, so what do I need to do with the new drive after I install it and before i start the cloning process?
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Nothing.
 

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Well, it is kind of a given that drive needs to be initialised. Most come preformatted as NTFS.
 

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cereberus said:
Well, it is kind of a given that drive needs to be initialised. Most come preformatted as NTFS.
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That's strange. I've never had a new HDD or SSD that was preformatted with anything - they have always been 100% unallocated space and Macrium Reflect has always cloned partitions to the new unallocated HDD or SSD without having to do any initialization of the new drive. External USB drives - preformatted yes; but new internal drives, nothing but unallocated space.
 

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NavyLCDR said:
That's strange. I've never had a new HDD or SSD that was preformatted with anything - they have always been 100% unallocated space and Macrium Reflect has always cloned partitions to the new unallocated HDD or SSD without having to do any initialization of the new drive. External USB drives - preformatted yes; but new internal drives, nothing but unallocated space.
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Yeah - you are right. I was confusing internal and external drives.
 

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ASUS Zenbook 14
CPU
I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
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Yep, Laptop has one.
Memory
16 GB soldered
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Sound Card
Realtek built in
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laptop OLED screen
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2880x1800 touchscreen
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1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
PSU
Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
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Yep, got one
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Built in UK keybd
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Edge
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Defender
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TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)

Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
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