[SOLVED] Regarding cloning

[WrongRookie]

This is my motherboard

Super Micro
C7H270-CG-ML

I am planning to get Kingston A2000 which I believe my motherboard is compatible with. Thing is, I want to clone it and I only want to clone just the C drive. Problem is that my Hard drive has both C and D drive and when I'm using AMOEI Backupper, It shows both C and D drive.

Is there a way to just clone only the C Drive? And from this motherboard, how can I make it boot from the M.2 instead of the Harddrive as the options seem confusing.

 

[WrongRookie]

Is this what you meant by rest of the space and is this accurate? @USAFRet @SkyNetRising

https://imgur.com/knjkuSI

View: https://imgur.com/knjkuSI

 

[SkyNetRising]

You clean target drive and redo cloning.
I don't understand the confusion here.

 

[WrongRookie]

You clean target drive and redo cloning.
I don't understand the confusion here.

Its not confusing, but I want to know that the pic above is the correct way to start the clone or not. So that I don't screw up the cloning like before. Also how do I clean the target drive?

 

[WrongRookie]

Ok so will it give a warning that the data in the target clone drive will be erased when I start the cloning process or do I first have to remove the volumes from the cloned partitions?

This is fine? @SkyNetRising @USAFRet

https://imgur.com/E7o6htT

View: https://imgur.com/E7o6htT

 

[WrongRookie]

Ok maybe I was not getting the thing right. So by clean target drive, did you mean removing the volumes J and K from the disk management and then redo the same thing again but without removing unallocated space? And does that mean that C drive's unallocated space also has to be merged back? @SkyNetRising

I'm asking because I want to be certain that this is what you meant and I've been waiting for response for a while.

 

[SkyNetRising]

You can not remove unallocated space.
Unallocated space means - it's unallocated. Nothing is there - empty space.
You clean target drive. That means removing all partitions on the drive. Only unallocated space is left.

 

[WrongRookie]

You can not remove unallocated space.
Unallocated space means - it's unallocated. Nothing is there - empty space.
You clean target drive. That means removing all partitions on the drive. Only unallocated space is left.

Ok so from disk management I remove them?

 

[WrongRookie]

Ok so @USAFRet @SkyNetRising I recloned it. Please tell me if this is correct or if I have to redo it again so that I can shutdown and remove the HDD and try the SDD Boot.

https://imgur.com/iVBJjLq

View: https://imgur.com/iVBJjLq

https://imgur.com/4H9OEsE

View: https://imgur.com/4H9OEsE



And here is the disk management screenshot as well

https://imgur.com/gfKKRDY

View: https://imgur.com/gfKKRDY

 

[SkyNetRising]

Looks good.
Remember to remove all other drives except cloned one. USB drives too.
Only then boot from cloned drive.

Later remove 460GB recovery partition. You're wasting a lot of space on that. It is not necessary.

 

[WrongRookie]

It worked!

https://imgur.com/rNubiDO

View: https://imgur.com/rNubiDO

https://imgur.com/E7MtBsv

View: https://imgur.com/E7MtBsv


I can tell that it loaded a lot faster than before...but what I can't tell is which one is the C drive that I'm suppose to delete... any idea? @SkyNetRising

 

[SkyNetRising]

New drive is 1TB size (931GB) Disk 0.
Old drive is 2TB size (1863GB) Disk 1.

C: drive is, where windows currently is loaded from. So old windows partition is letter E: .

 

[WrongRookie]

Ok one last question for this @SkyNetRising

I just bought the ssd and ok I cloned it successfully. But is it a good idea to remove the old partition now?

I ask because if for some reason the ssd either fails or explodes for some reason, Would windows be able to detect the windows drive from the hdd and boot that if the boot order is changed?

 

[SkyNetRising]

But is it a good idea to remove the old partition now?
I ask because if for some reason the ssd either fails or explodes for some reason, Would windows be able to detect the windows drive from the hdd and boot that if the boot order is changed?

You can keep old windows partition for backup purposes. That's perfectly fine. Just remove drive letter from it ( E: ) and it will be hidden until you need it.
It all depends on, what you want to do.

 

[WrongRookie]

Later remove 460GB recovery partition. You're wasting a lot of space on that. It is not necessary.

I can't seem to remove it from disk management...

https://imgur.com/8rJNkuS

View: https://imgur.com/8rJNkuS


I assume you need the command prompt for this?

 

[SkyNetRising]

I can't seem to remove it from disk management...
I assume you need the command prompt for this?

Yes. Disk Management doesn't allow manipulations with recovery partition.

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

list partition​

select partition 3​

(select 460GB partition)​

delete partition override​

 

[WrongRookie]

Thank you for all your help @SkyNetRising and @USAFRet !