Cloning laptop HDD to SSD, have 6 partitions on laptop. Do I copy these across to the SSD?

[DarkShadow]

Hello,

It's been a while since I've a bought a laptop and I've never seen so many partitions. After googling around, I understand why they're there. My question is can I just select C and D? Or should I just make a copy of what's in D? It's just an applications (bloatware) and drivers folder. The rest seem to be 100% free.




Will macrium duplicate the same partitions or do I have to manually resize them? I have 1TB HDD (that is clean) and a 240GB SSD.

EDIT:

After launching Macrium, that certainly doesn't look like the case - the drives have data. How do I proceed?




Cheers

 

[Orcvader]

I take it the laptop previously had windows 8, and later on you upgraded to 8.1, which created the extra 451mb recovery partition squuezed in between C and D.

Personally I would be tempted to install a clean copy of 8.1, so it can run fresh on the SSD without any of the bloatware and any possible problems that it may have gained from upgrading form 8 to 8.1.

I did something similar, originally my HP laptop had 4 partitions, after the 8.1 update it became 5 partitions. Doing a clean 8.1 install it dropped to 3 partitions in a much better order as well as being a bit more slimline with the recovery partition: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18587279

 

[DarkShadow]

I take it the laptop previously had windows 8, and later on you upgraded to 8.1, which created the extra 451mb recovery partition squuezed in between C and D.

Personally I would be tempted to install a clean copy of 8.1, so it can run fresh on the SSD without any of the bloatware and any possible problems that it may have gained from upgrading form 8 to 8.1.

I did something similar, originally my HP laptop had 4 partitions, after the 8.1 update it became 5 partitions. Doing a clean 8.1 install it dropped to 3 partitions in a much better order as well as being a bit more slimline with the recovery partition: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18587279

Spot on. Thanks for sharing.

As it came with no disk or serial key. I've managed to retrieve the product key using produkey.

The question is now where can I get 8.1 ISO to match my key? From the googling I've done I can only find Windows 8.1 pro and few different flavours that I'm unsure which I fall under.

Does anyone have a better understanding on the approach I should take?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it. Just posting for others:- Here are the links you need; http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/download-microsoft-windows-and-office/download-microsoft-windows/download-windows-8-1-retail-and-oem-iso/#Part1 and to download the ISO; http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media