Windows 10: Imaged partitioned Drive

I Acronised my Hard Drive (boot drive) which is 500 Gig to my SSD. Don't ask me why ASUS had it partitioned (as it does my second 500 Gig Drive).
Here's what I see when I go to Windows Explorer. The SSD is obviously a clone of my HD, which SSD (C:\) is now showing 122 Gigs free space with a whopping 7.99 Gigs free. I also have an F: drive which is showing 89 free. This again is a Samsung VNand 850 EVO.
I guess my question would be, does this slow down the SSD or does it not. Obviously, when the first partition (C:\) is filled, it will carry on to the F: and go from there as to adding whatever.
Is this normal, abnormal or ok. Please advise. Thanks.

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Clone System Disk Issues

> Are the drive letters correct in recovery console?

Answer to myself. No they are not.

I have managed to get my image to boot from the 1TB hard drive.

To work I made the same amount of partitions as on the original drive. With two dummy 100MB partitions. So the boot drive is on the 4th partition like on the original drive.

So my partition's are now:

System Reserved (100MB)

Dummy E: partition (100MB)

Dummy D: partition (100MB)

C: Drive (Full C Drive image size)

Where I will not assign drive letters to the dummy partitions within Windows.

Repeating process on SDD now. Only difference is the C: drive partition will be shrunk.

I am sure there is probably a better way to fix this in the System Reserved partition in the Boot Configuration Database.

Still have the issue 2 above, where my image thinks an update is still in progress which would also be nice to fix.

 

booting an external drive

For years I’ve used Clonezilla on external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: First, using Gparted I make two partitions on an external drive, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition
to store the images. Next I use Tuxboot to install Clonezilla onto the fat32 partition. Then I restart the pc and boot to the Clonezilla partition and make a drive image of whatever other drive and store it on the ntsf partition; or I restore an image from
the ntsf partition to whatever drive. I regularly do this on various Windows pcs - XP, Vista, Win7, Win8, win8.1 Win10. I bought a WD My Passport 2 TB drive and everything goes OK but it will not boot to Clonezilla connected to any usb on any pc as my
other external drives faithfully do. The only response is that no os was found. I’ve reformatted and reinstalled various Clonezilla versions. I ran WD diagnostics. I’ve used different cables.

So how do I solve this?

 

Post a screen shot of disk management so we can suggest what to do;
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I guess my question should be, is there anything I really need to do or just leave it as is. Your advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

From what I saw, there's nothing wrong with the way it is. You're good to go.

 

So with it partitioned this way, I take from your reply this does not slow the SSD down any more than the HD being partitioned. Thank you so much for your reply and help.

 

No, your HD is 500 GB and your SSD is 250GB so when migrating fromHD to SSD, the free space will be different.

 

Understood. I was thinking at first, when I saw 7.99 Gigs free on the C drive, it might slow it down. I thought I had read somewhere when a Drive is full, it can slow down but I guess the SSD is really not full, since there is over 89 Gigs free.
Anyway, I appreciate the fact that you're about. It sure gives us novices a measure of comfort when something goes pads up.

 

Sorry. Actually, I misunderstood your question. If C: drive only has 7.9 GB left then it is low. I would suggest to move the data from from F: drive to E: drive, delete F: drive and then expand C: drive

 

There actually is no data on F: to move. Presently, when I right click on F, there is no option to Delete. Actually, let me update that. There is 257,593,344 bytes showing on the F: drive. But (remember, you're dealing with a novice) how does one move that info over to the E: Drive and then delete when presently there is no Delete option showing when I right click? Remember, the SSD is an imaged Drive from my old(er) HD.
Permit me to edit again. In Disk Management I can delete the F: Drive but the Extend Volume is grayed out in each of the Drives when I right click.

 

Sorry, F: needs to be next to C: in order to expand C:

Download: Bootable Partition Manger | MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition and put it in a USB stick using: Rufus - Create bootable USB
Boot up and move the F: partition right after C; Drive then expand.
Once booted from USB. You'd see a screen similar to the below:

• Right click on F: then select "Delete", F: will become unallocated.
• Right click on 350MB partition and select "Move/Resize" then drag this partition to right
• Click "Apply" on the top left to commit the change.
• Reboot. You should be able to expand C: drive.

 

Ok. This appears the only route to take. I find one has to actually buy this program for it to move anything more than one Gig.
Thank you so much for the info.

 

The link I gave above to download the free version, you need not to buy anything.

EDIT:

Just open F: drive and copy whatever in there to E:

 

Where did you see that? Please give a link ...

Command Prompt (Admin)
reagentc / info
Post the results (I expect it to report part 7)

There doesn't seem to be much on Data (F*Smile 88.80 free of 89.04. I agree with topgun - just move what little is there to D: or E: (both seem to be empty).

I'll know better which partitions can be deleted after seeing the reagentc output.