Cloning HP 500GB drive to SSD - which partitions?

[cliverlong1]

Hi,

I am going to clone an HP Windows 10 system disk to SSD using Macrium reflect. I have done this before and it has worked well.

I need to shrink the main partition as I am moving from 500GB to 256GB SSD - that is fine - I will use GPARted.

The machine was originally Win7 and upgraded to Win10.

My question is about the various partitions on the HP Windows HDD.  I don't want to copy any unnnecessary data as I want to make the target system partition as large as possible. The disk is formatted GPT.

The partitions are labelled and have size

1. WinRE 650 MB NTFS

2. Noname FAT32 260MB

3 (None) Unformatted 128MB

4 Windows (C:) NTFS 443 GB

5 (None) 1,7 GB

6 RECOVERY (D:) 19.63GB

So. Which partitions do I need to copy/clone? All of them? Some of them?

Thanks

[WAWood]

@cliverlong1 

Given the date of your post, I would have expected someone to respond to it before this -- but since that has not happened, I will take a shot at it ...

I know the ones you do NOT need are 1 and 6. I would use a third-party utility known as Macrium Reflect to make Recovery Media after the cloning, thus preventing the need for a Recover partition.

As to the others, I would keep them all as MS now creates extra partitions with Windows Update and does not tell us why they do that.

If you wanted to experiment, you could try cloning just 2,3 and 4.  I'm not sure that 5 does you any good.