Happy days are here again.
The download direct from AOMEI was identical to the one from CNET -- the direct version filename was was followed by (1).
In any case, when I started the clone again, I noticed for the first time (it was probably there before):
"The Source disk contains over 3 partitions. Disk Clone only supports to copy 3 partitions.
You can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to convert the destination disk to GPT or convert or convert the source disk to MBR, and then do the operation again."
I had no problem with Win 7 because I had only two partitions. AND I thought my target disk was GPT -- wrong.
Tonight the AEOMI clone worked properly -- GPT disk to GPT disk.
The easiest way I have found is to change MBR to GPT is from:
Hi Guys - I have an OCZ Trion 100 960gb SSD (not my primary drive) in my new build. In my previous build I used the drive as my only drive so partitioned it and had windows/games/media on the different partitions. I thought I had removed the partitions and formatted it correctly to return it to...
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This says:
Open cmd.exe, RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
There are a bunch of recovery partitions and efi system partition.
Those can be deleted with diskpart (Disk Management will not allow deleting them).
Diskpart clean - is the fastest option.
diskpart
list disk
select disk 1 (presuming you have only disk 0 and disk 1)
clean
exit
Clean command is data destructive. Be careful with it.
Then initialize the disk as GPT in Disk Management.
I don't know why the other query is inside this post.