That's one of the reasons why I always recommend imaging or cloning the entire drive and why I have frequently questioned Reflect's exclusionary implementation of a backup option that will include nothing but partitions required for normal booting of the Windows OS itself, even if the user selects others on that same UI screen as well. On the other hand, despite their relatively small size, it should also be noted that recent Windows versions, especially Windows 10, are increasingly reliant on their recovery partitions being available for certain functions that are included in the primary OS user interface. The actual lost space is very small.Īs Clintgm points out, recent Windows version upgrades add their own recovery partitions if they can rather than replacing the existing WinRE partition and, as seekforever says, they're relatively minor additions. Your C drive size for a 1TB drive is actually 929.87GB not MB. If you want a booting OS you will clone the entire disk all the partitions, it appears you have upgraded OS and have a couple of extra recovery partition however unless you know exactly which ones I would clone them all and sort them out later.Īll of the non-C partitions only add up to 1.7GB.

I've never done a clone before and don't want to mess this up! I know I need the 4th partition (Main Drive C, but do I need any/all of the others? If there are some I can omit, I'd love to save the space. When I start up Reflect, it shows my C: drive to have a LOT of partitions that I know nothing about:ġ - Recovery (None) NTFS Primary - 75.2MB/300.0MBĢ - NO NAME (None) FAT32 (LBA) Primary - 33.0MB/99.0MBģ - (None) Unformatted Primary - 128.0MB/128.0MBĤ - Main Drive C: NTFS Primary - 631.36MB/929.87MBĥ - (None) NTFS Primary - 355.7MB/450.0MBĦ - (None) NTFS Primary - 299.8MB/350.0MBħ - (None) NTFS Primary - 297.7MB/350.0MB

I want to clone my primary 1TB boot (C drive onto a new 1TB SSD. Hey folks! Hope someone can help me here.

Does macrium reflect 7 do cloning