Windows 10: Is cloning Hidden partitions from HDD to SSD necessary?

Hi guys.
I have a one-TB HDD on my laptop and want to replace it by a 240-GB SSD and there are some questions about hidden partitions and other things. First of all in Macrium reflect, I see that there are some hidden partitions which I don't know what they are. The first question, should I select these hidden partitions for cloning to SSD beside the windows partiton? The second question, the windows partition has 415-GB capacity and it is larger than my SSD, should the entire partition be smaller than the SSD or just the amount of used space? in case if I need to shrink windows partition before cloning. Also there is a 25-Gb recovery partition which is not hidden and I want to know if I should select it for cloning too. You can see the screenshot of my Macrium below.





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Cannot access recovery partition

Mike's an Asus..... Anyways I did go into asus recovery and tried the same thing..... It says the partition is missing...... The problem is I installed an ssd on my own and cloned it from my hdd.... The recovery partition is still in my hdd but the os
is in my ssd.... So I guess it's not accessing my recovery partition Cuz I just cloned the os.....

 

Remove Recovery Partition and Go to Recovery Drive During HDD to SSD Upgrade

Thank you Sangeeta,

"delete the recovery partition as part of the cloning of the HDD to the SSD" The meaning of this quote is as follows:

The recovery partition on the HDD will NOT be copied onto the SSD. This differs from most other data on the HDD which will be copied over onto the SSD. The word cloning is used because the emphasis is on having a functioning system on the SSD that truly
mimics the system that ran on the HDD. Just as a biological clone is the creation of an identical organism with the same behavior.

The specific SSD I have is a Samsung 850 EVO with 250 GB capacity. It comes with migration software. Further study on my part discovered the following from the migration software user guide "OEM Recovery partition created by the computer manufacturer as
a factory setting will not be cloned". So, Samsung does not carry the recovery partition across to the SSD - just as I wanted.

So, the SSD won't have the 16 GB recovery partition that the HDD had. Incidentally, Acer documentation says that if a new drive is installed, the ability to go back to the "original build factory settings" will be lost. So, they anticipated the loss if
the drive was replaced. And this is fine by me since I do not want to go back to Windows 7.

The bottom line is that the SSD won't have the recovery partition; I need to create a recovery drive once I have upgraded to the SSD. (I think it is best to create the recovery drive after the SSD is installed since there are subtle differences between
the SSD and HDD and the recovery tools should reflect the SSD.)

 

You can clone a big drive to smaller as long as the used space is smaller than the target the image isn't clear enough to see details of partition but normally the 128 drive is the actual boot drive so it won't boot if you don't copy that you don't need the recovery one but assuming it's MBR you need to copy the boots error or it won't boot

 

thanks for your response. The HDD is in GPT format. I put a better screenshot for you also the screenshot of disk management.

 

You need the 260mb EFI System partition and the Windows partition.

 

You do need the hidden partitions. Reflect makes it easy - choose the option "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" on the left hand side of the Reflect window:



There are advantages in imaging then restoring your system to a new PC compared to cloning - see my guide enclosed.
SSD Transfer.docx