18 R1, BIOS question

Once the imaging/cloning is complete, you must remove the original drive before you boot Windows for the first time.  Once you complete a boot cycle, you can then reconnect the original drive and reformat it for storage use.  

Do not boot the imaged/cloned drive with the original installed -- or the system will then boot only from the original drive.

@ejn63​ Ok right, but, Is it ok if I do migration? For beginning the process you just told me?

You need to clone the disc from the original to the new one.  

@ejn63​ So its fully okay to remove the original drive just like that, with all the information it has already in? Won't it cause issues by disconnecting and connecting it again like that?

If you clone the drive and leave the original in the system, the copy will never be bootable.  You must remove the original drive from the system immediately after cloning, before first boot in order for the replacement drive to be marked as a primary drive.

@ejn63​ OK, great, when Im about to clone (im using EaseUS Partition Master) There is two options;

- Autofit the disk
- Clone as the source

Which one should I use?

You'll need to consult the documentation.  I'm not familiar with that software.

Autofit sounds like it's designed to resize the existing drive to fit the new one.  The other sounds more like a direct clone that will retain the existing partition sizes, even if the new drive is larger.  The documentation should state definitively which you want.

Alternatively, Macrium Reflect is another good option for cloning a drive.

@ejn63​ Great thanks, so I'm going to clone the drive by adding all the partitions as in the picture, is it ok like that?

Should work fine, but there is also the option to copy the entire disc -- not just partition by partition.

@ejn63​ Thanks! Cloning operation was perfect