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Yes you may try that.

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Select the space needed(occupied) not total space of each partition as it is from HDD while cloning

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i am done clonning and also making the ssd my boot drive , everything runs very fast and smooth now and i am currently formatting my old c drive(which is now F drive). I wanted to ask about the other partitions i have already clonned to my ssd(the 260mb space and also the 980mb drive on disk 1:screen shot attached) Should i format those too?capture3.PNG

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Good job done!

Yes you can format the old drive competely, no need of any partitions if your planning to make it storage only drive.

In any case if you need to factory reset old drive in future, you can use Recovery USB to do it in old drive.
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Iam using the hdd as storage for music , movies , games and other data. Thanks a lot for all the help , i really appreciate your effort 🙂

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Most welcome to help you.

Good luck!

Have a great day ahead.

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OK i am guessing i have another problem XD , I am not able to format the small 980mb and the other partition. It doesn't allow me to do it for one and shoes help option for another. Its night time , going to sleep , so you won't be getting a response for sometime. Thanks.
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Take it out, connect to notebook via SATA to USB adapter. Then format it competely. Put it back.

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If I do that , wont my recovery D partition be deleted too? If I am doing this , should I also clone the D partition too?
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