Here is an illustration of a typical Computer window found in Windows Vista. You see two hard drives: C and D. Drive D is labeled Recovery. To use this drive for starting the computer and troubleshooting, you access the computer’s Boot menu.A prompt describing which key to press to access the Boot menu appears when the computer first starts. On some computers, it’s the F10 key, though on my Dell computer, it’s F12.When the Boot menu appears, notice that one of the options presented is to boot into the recovery volume.

1. Windows Recovery Partition

Choose that option to start and use the recovery volume.What happens when you start the recovery partition depends on the computer manufacturer. You may see a custom operating system loosely based on Windows but geared toward troubleshooting and maintenance. Sometimes you see the System Recovery Options window.

The tools you find available can be used to help fix the main Windows volume (drive C), access special utilities, or even restore the PC from a backup.

I recently got a new ssd from a friend of mine, my plans were to copy everything from my hard drive (around 190gb) to the ssd, including windows and my favorite games, so they start faster. (The ssd is 240 gb).

When i tried cloning it, it said that not everything could be cloned, because there was not enough space. Once I unchecked the small 450mb partition labeled, Healthy (Recovery Partition) It said it would work, even if i tried ONLY cloning the 450 mb partition it said there wasnt enough space, so obviously i just cant clone it. And is there a way of getting around it without having to do a fresh windows install?

Also, can i just move the other partitions to the ssd, and not the 450mb one without damaging anything? Some cloning tools are smarter than others. Since you have a Kingston drive, you should be able to download Acronis True Image. There are a number of how to's on how to do what you're trying to do with that specific software.If you cant download or use that software (or even if you can this isnt a bad idea to do):From there, I'd recommend reducing the partition size of your drive down to less than the SSD you're tying to clone to. It sounds like you have enough free space that you can do that. Make sure both the partition of your recovery partition and the reduced partition of your data equal less than the max size of the SSD.

From there the cloning software (Acronis or otherwise) should be able to migrate your data over. Some cloning tools are smarter than others. Since you have a Kingston drive, you should be able to download Acronis True Image.

There are a number of how to's on how to do what you're trying to do with that specific software.If you cant download or use that software (or even if you can this isnt a bad idea to do):From there, I'd recommend reducing the partition size of your drive down to less than the SSD you're tying to clone to. It sounds like you have enough free space that you can do that. Make sure both the partition of your recovery partition and the reduced partition of your data equal less than the max size of the SSD. From there the cloning software (Acronis or otherwise) should be able to migrate your data over.Ive already tried that, i shrunk the main data partition down so it was only 190 gb or so, that added up with the partitions doesnt even go over 200gb, The ssd in total is about 222 gb. Im not sure if this matters, but when i cleaned my friends old stuff off of the ssd, i only used disk part in the command prompt.

Windows Recovery Partition

I have dariks boot and nuke which can write zeros to the whole drive if that makes a difference.