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I have new windows 10 computer and wanted to clone the new, clean hard drive. It had a C drive and D drive which was HP recovery section. I had initially tried to make a system image using windows 10 but not sure if it was successful...that is why I am trying Terbyte.
I plugged into USB a 2T external drive and selected "copy". After about 12 minutes the copy was complete1. I had expected to see 1 file..copy of C but it showed 5 items....all of which I have found info online to explain what these partitions are. 1.EFI system which was about same size as original. 2. Microsoft reserved partition which was about same size. 3. c: windows which had doubled in size from 937255 mib to 1875565 mib ...and was now shown as F {same drive letter as external drive}. 4. WINRE which was about same size. 5. Recovery {the HP restore section} which had increased in size from 15491 mib to 31000 mib.

Why did the HP Recovery partition double in size? Same with windows partition doubling in size?

If I want to copy the drive again...say in couple months after new software added and everything working well.....do I just copy the C...windows partition? I know there would be no need to copy the HP Restore partition, but do the other 3 change and should be imaged?

I would think.....I would just do an image of C only?

Thanks for your help.

joindy,

For backup purposes you should be creating an image, not a copy. Create an Entire Drive image. It will be a single file.

Brian K wrote:
> joindy,
>
> For backup purposes you should be creating an image, not a copy. Create an
> Entire Drive image. It will be a single file.

That's what I almost posted yesterday, but then I noticed that the original post referred to wanting to "clone" the drive, so I decided I didn't know what was trying to be accomplished.

Edit: Never mind. This whole thread seems to be made irrelevant by the thread at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ucf/vi ... f=4&t=2019