Macrium Reflect clone created two partitions !?

digitaldreams · 9 Jan 2016 at 16:13

Hi

After cloning a drive on my kids pc using the above I find I now have C: AND D: drives. At first glance D: seems to contain the boot files where C: contains everything else. Not what I hoped for.

Looking at Disk 0 using Win7 computer management I now see....

System Reserved D: 99MB NTFS Healthy (system, active, primary)
C: 558.81GB NTFS Healthy (boot, page file, crash dump, Primary partition)

If I start to mark C: as 'active' it warns me to ensure a functioning operating system is on that partition.

Looking at D: with file explorer I see....

$Recycle.bin (folder)
Boot (folder containing fonts, logs, BCD file, BOOTSTAT.DAT file, memtest.exe)
System Volume Information (locked folder)
bootmgr (system file)
BOOTSECT.BAK
WRBQD (system file)

Is it safe to mark C: as active and remove D: ??

Thanks in advance...

wazza300 · 9 Jan 2016 at 16:26

That's normal its your boot record,did you disconnect all other drives except the two needed to clone?

If you delete that partition you might not boot

bledd · 9 Jan 2016 at 17:05

Just remove the letter assignment for D in Disk Management. But don't actually remove the partition.

edit, is it in Windows you see this?or just in Macrium? if the latter then ignore it.

KIA · 10 Jan 2016 at 18:36

bledd. said:
Just remove the letter assignment for D in Disk Management. But don't actually remove the partition.

This.

digitaldreams · 10 Jan 2016 at 23:03

wazza300 said:
That's normal its your boot record,did you disconnect all other drives except the two needed to clone?

If you delete that partition you might not boot

Yeah just the two drives...

digitaldreams · 10 Jan 2016 at 23:05

bledd. said:
Just remove the letter assignment for D in Disk Management. But don't actually remove the partition.

edit, is it in Windows you see this?or just in Macrium? if the latter then ignore it.

Windows, uninstalled Macrium....