Question about cloning a drive

[Grizzly]

I have noticed for a while now that every time I clone my SSD to an identical external SSD (both are NVMe, same size and brand, even the same model), the clone is much smaller than the original by exact the amount of space that is needed for the restore points. Are the restore points not saved on the main
drive (C:\) ??
Can somebody please explain to me why is it that way??

I am asking just out of curiosity.

 

[Xploit Machine]

Recovery Partition is not assigned as active partition generally, only System Reserved is assigned as active status, non active partitions will not be cloned, but .. recovery partition is readable by current installed Windows operating system (not cloning applications / tools) .. we cant assign it as active status or even with drive letters ..

Recovery Partition is useful for Windows Updates and other Windows required files, common Restore Points are stored inside System Volume Information



Screenshot of System Volume Information after I took permission (but the permission will revert to original after restart) ..

 

[Grizzly]

I was talking about the C:\- drive that is different, the other partitions are exactly the same size

 

[Xploit Machine]

Delete the recovery partition and redo the cloning .. the recovery partition can be created later manually ..

 

[Grizzly]

Which one?? I have two (#4 and #5). One of them was created when I activated Bitlocker

 

[Xploit Machine]

The one created before Bitlocker ..

Else remove Bitlocker temporarily and re-clone it (of course Bitlocker will not be activated at the cloned drive after that

 

[Grizzly]

Well, I did not pay attention which one was already there. Bitlocker is currently not active.
I use Macrium Reflect to clone the drive and it does not clone the bitlocker encryption at all.
The clone is always unencrypted...

 

[The Shadow 2023]

You may be using the wrong verbiage.
If you mean to only back up the C: partition, then that's NOT a clone, but an image backup of C:.
A clone is an exact bit for bit copy of the object drive, including all partitions.

I'm pretty familiar with the concept of Disk Cloning, since I've been doing it since 1997. That's when I began using "Ghost" for all my disk backup and cloning. I still use Ghost 11.5 (DOS) and it works flawlessly.

Shadow