But I will insist that, by definition, it is necessarily true. One can
certainly make bootable copies that are not clones (and it's good to
know that Reflect permits shrinking or taking less than all partitions..
which is something I mentioned) but it's not a clone in my book.
And thanks for the tip on the SSD driver. I'm not sure I'd have thought
of that.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/2/2014 5:35 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 3/2/2014 10:41 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> A true clone of the drive will copy all of the partitions since a clone
>> is an *exact* copy.
>
> This is not necessarily true. One may clone one or more partitions and not
> others. I have done this.
>
>> Your only concern in making a true clone is to make sure the SSD is at least
>> as large as what you're cloning. If the SSD is smaller you'll have to
>> figure out how to shrink the partitions or take less than all the partitions.
>
> All of this is easily done in Reflect. I cloned a 256GB HD onto a 240GB SSD
> with no difficulty.
>
> I did run into trouble with the SSD clone. Sometimes it would boot fine.
> Others, it would get to the light blue welcome
> screen, then go black. I found CTRL-ALT-DEL would open up a live control
> window; start Task Manager, use it to kill
> Explorer (not IE or WE, just Explorer - stupid naming), to start Explorer
> again and all was fine.
>
> I eventually discovered that installing a new (additional?) Intel driver for
> HD/SSD fixed it all. As is so often the
> case, the info was on the MS site, but obscure.
>
> Solid State Moose
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
>
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