Cloning System Partition, Recreating EFI and Recovery partitions...

Megahertz · Sep 16, 2022

Diskgenius is another powerful tool to manage drives and it's partitions

firas465 · Sep 16, 2022

jimbo45 said:
macrium is the simplest way -- I don't like minitool --if I need a proper free partitioner then I can use the bootable stand alone version of GPARTED which doesn't have any features disabled for "Go Pro" --i.e pay, plus gparted handles any file system under the sun, and in a last resort you can easily clone a disk where you haven't been able to create any partitions on it via the built in terminal command dd -- which simply compies physical sectors from 1 disk (or partition) to another without regard to file system or data contennnt -- note DD will copy errors etc too -- it simply copies byte for byte whatever is on the source disk or partition to target but it's a possible tool if all else fails.

It's always better to have more than a single weapon in your armoury -- as they say if you go to a gunfight don't come only armed with a knife. !!

Cheers
jimbo

But Maybe he is uncomfortable with an advanced app
some times tell I dont want all this big all options app

so i download the easy one

any way

good point

firas465 · Sep 16, 2022

Megahertz said:
Diskgenius is another powerful tool to manage drives and it's partitions

downloading thanks

Mercurius · Oct 24, 2022

AOMEI Backupper free has gotten mentioned as a possible 3rd party solution. Low-level novice here who is exploring use of AOMEI Backupper Standard (free) and Pro (paid) versions. FYI - Their support literature is extremely bloated and convoluted but after much rambling reading I have learned this: The free version as a stand alone only supports MBR to MBR cloning. MBR - GPT conversions or GPT to GPT require the paid Pro version at minimum. Also the System Clone module does NOT clone over any separate Recovery partitions. To do that - MAYBE - the Disk Clone sector by sector or System Backup/restore approaches would work.

SIW2 · Oct 25, 2022

It is listed in edition comparison. Compare Different Editions of AOMEI Backupper

Mercurius · Oct 25, 2022

Perhaps "System Clone" is the operative as opposed to "Disk Clone". SC is not checked in the free column. The Partial notation under DC mentions MBR/GPT issues. I dunno. I opted to not try AOMEI but used Macrium free instead. More OT of OP here - it did a Win 10 system clone without problem while the main OS was running. (No rescue media required.) This included Macrium automatically taking steps to go from a 1 TB HDD to a 256 GB m2. SSD. It shrank the C: drive without touching the sizes of the EFI System and Recovery partitions. I was holding my breath over that aspect.

Does Recovery still works like it is supposed to? I don't know. I've never tried to test recovery before or after.