[SOLVED] Cloning boot and recovery partition to an SSD?

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I currently have a laptop with HDD as its primary disk. I partitioned it so that I have a separate one just for my files. Now, I bought an SSD and I plan to make it my boot drive. How do I easily clone just the boot and recovery partitions to the SSD? Additionally, can I delete those two and combine it with the Files partition after cloning?

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easily? IDK. Cloning means to make a duplicate, if you do not copy everything you cannot clone by definition.

you can. I would not. the recovery D is your reset partition. it is what resets the hard drive back to the day you got it. if you delete that you will need to install windows from scratch, you cannot simply restore with all programs and drivers installed ready for introductions with that partition gone you will need to do all that manually and you will not have access to any OEM programs that shipped with the unit.

I suggest you remove/backup to other media the E: drive.
then you can remove that partition. this will bring the total size of the drive down so it will fit on a 275GB SSD once the E: partition has...
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easily? IDK. Cloning means to make a duplicate, if you do not copy everything you cannot clone by definition.

you can. I would not. the recovery D is your reset partition. it is what resets the hard drive back to the day you got it. if you delete that you will need to install windows from scratch, you cannot simply restore with all programs and drivers installed ready for introductions with that partition gone you will need to do all that manually and you will not have access to any OEM programs that shipped with the unit.

I suggest you remove/backup to other media the E: drive.
then you can remove that partition. this will bring the total size of the drive down so it will fit on a 275GB SSD once the E: partition has been deleted (after you backed up everything on it of course) you can proceed with cloning the rest of the drive, the free space that was E will be ignored.
after the modified drive is cloned you can format the entire drive and replace the files that were on the E partition.

I have not done this before. I suggest you backup everything before undertaking Data loss is possible/probable. be prepared for that eventuality by having your data backed up.
did I mention to back up?
 
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