I am replacing my hard drive. It currently has 3 partitions. The new drive is the same size. Should I copy all 3 partitions

[JMJindela]

Hello All

My current hard drive is a WDC WD10EADS-22M2B0 (Western Digital 1 TB). The current partitions are:

No label: 13.00 GB (Recovery Partition)
System Reserved E: 100 MB NTFS (Primary Partition)
Gateway C: 918.41 GB (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

The replacement is also a 1TB WD (WD10EZRX). I have Acronis True Image and will make a full image before removing the old drive.

My problem is I don't understand what the partitions are (except for the obvious C) and I thought I read that at least one is hardware specific. Should I copy all 3 partitions to the new drive? What are the "recovery partition" and "System Reserved"?

Thanks
JJ

 

[rgd1101]

yes just clone the disk
they are for system recovery

 

[JMJindela]

I assume this is correct, so this tells me what I need. However, I was hoping for some information as well. Can someone explain what the partitions are? (Not C:, I get it, but the other two)