![]() Disk imagers like Acronis True Image, Macrium Reflect, and Drive Cloner are better choices for this. But in Win10 v1607, the size of MSR is 16MB. Its known to have issues recognizing different hardware. Windows 10 v1507 creates 128 MB MSR if I remember correctly. ![]() The following is the list of the universal restore software. I am sure if you clean your HDD/SSD first (but don't manually format it yet), then boot your Windows installer UFD, select the unformatted HDD/SSD as installation target drive let Windows installer automatically partition the disk the partition layout will be the same size and order as I show in post #51.īTW, the size of the Recovery, EFI and MSR partitions do vary depending on the version of Windows you install. 5 Best Universal Restore Software for Restoring System Image to Dissimilar Hardware Here, I have enumerated the five universal restore software for you. This way, the Recovery, EFI and C: partitions could only be created after the existing MSR. I guess what happened was, you formatted your disk as data GPT disk first (Windows will create a 128MB MSR partition on data disk at the beginning of the disk upon formatting), then installed Windows on this formatted disk with existing partitions. That is, as long as you install Windows 10 v1607 on an empty disk (not formatted, so no existing partitions on it).Īlso note, that you have the 128MB MSR partition located up front before the Recovery partition, which is in different order from all my Windows installations. the sizes of the first 3 partitions (Recovery, EFI, MSR) are all the same. I installed 6 PCs, with very different hardware setups (CPU, RAM, size of hard disk from 120GB SSD, to 240GB SSD to 500GB HDD), including both desktop and laptop. Click to expand.I am afraid it's not really related to the size of the HDD.
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