will coning software clone the recovery partition?
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No it won't and cloning the drive is not a good idea. You'll want to install windows directly onto the ssd and use the hdd as a backup
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The restore disk, if a separate DVD with the software on it, yes. On the other hand, these sometimes come with an installation in place already on the HDD, and you would have to make a clone of the drive to do the install on a new HDD. The last option is to do your setup on the drive that comes with the PC, and THEN clone the drive to a new (larger) drive. This is all legal and above board as long as you don't use the OS in another PC. There are several products available for cloning a HDD. Some of them are even free for this purpose...
565448
The software is on a disc. I don't know about any "backup program" This is an Anti Virus program.
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No. This product requires the source drive to be smaller than the destination. There is a high chance of failure if you would try using a smaller destination since the product is not designed to pull certain partitions or sectors on the disk.
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I believe so. I have cloned many drives to 500gb, 750gb and 1 terabyte drives using acronis software
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The disk and a software cd (and a manual I think, can't remember), you will need another equipment if you want to clone your old disk
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U can use a cloning software... I use Acronis backup... or if u r doing a clean install u will need ur original disks and take out ur old drive and put that one in and run the install of ur OS
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No, no software is included. On my Mac I used Carbon Copy Cloner on duplicate the disk.
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no but making one is very easy to do http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/create-a-system-repair-disc
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Shawn Slater is correct you have to make the windows seven recovery disks yourself. it is very easy
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No but you can boot from a standalone CD program and make a copy of a drive that has been freshly formatted.
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Yes as said before, but you will need software to use the extra 250GB. The straight clone is just a copy of the original 250GB and the new drive thinks it's only a 250GB drive. The software will let you allocate the remaining for an alternate drive or a continuation of the same drive. I used EaseUS Partition Master and it worked fine.
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Actually . You can clone your system with acronis which is provided with this device. I did this. there was no problem. Everything was same. But I recommend that you had better to install new and clean windows. It makes this device more efficent. In fact after I cloned my system, I decided to install totally new windows. if you dont want to new windows go for it.
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I have no idea but I am sure it will clone to a smaller drive. My machines are Windows 7.
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Try Clonezillla. It's always worked for me and is free. It will clone your entire boot drive.
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that's going to depend on the cloning software used, and the operating system, in windows you can expand partitions once made on a larger drive
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It depends in which software that you use, I believe there is some paid software that can clone only the OS but as always it is recommended to just reinstall straight onto the SSD