Strange C Drive: I was about to clone my C drive with Macrium Reflect, and it showed me this. It's a 500 GB SSD. Why is it broken up like this?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I was about to clone my C drive with Macrium Reflect, and it showed me this. It's a 500 GB SSD. Why is it broken up like this?

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

What OS?
Win 10? Might be the answer... (Who knows!)
(Even my Win 7 recovery partition is labeled...)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

What OS?
Win 10? Might be the answer... (Who knows!)
(Even my Win 7 recovery partition is labeled...)

Win10. I cloned it, so if I have a problem, I'll run Macrium Refelct and get it running again.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Because it's an SSD???

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

Because it's an SSD???

Apparently not. I watched a video about making a clone, and the guy's hard drive looked just like mine. I guess that's how Windows sets it up. Looking at the drive in Windows with "This PC," all it shows is the C drive.

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

I was about to clone my C drive with Macrium Reflect, and it showed me this. It's a 500 GB SSD. Why is it broken up like this?

It looks like it might be partitioned or your software thinks it's partitioned. Note that I am a Mac user and have not been current on PC operating systems in years, but that is what it looks like to me.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bpulv wrote:

It looks like it might be partitioned or your software thinks it's partitioned. Note that I am a Mac user and have not been current on PC operating systems in years, but that is what it looks like to me.

If it wasn't partitioned,
there wouldn't be partitions indicated...

I'll still go with a Win 10 function, hidden stuff that Win 10 uses. (great...)
When I cloned my Win 7 system, the software only found two partitions, which I knew about. ("C:" primary and "D:" (recovery))
The clone (replacement drive) is working perfectly. Probably would not if it were missing a partition or two.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Not sure, but think it's mirroring partitions on your existing C Drive. Also, when upgrading the hard drive in my laptop I first looked at Macrium Reflect but ending up using Acronis which was a breeze.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

yssirk123 wrote:

Not sure, but think it's mirroring partitions on your existing C Drive. Also, when upgrading the hard drive in my laptop I first looked at Macrium Reflect but ending up using Acronis which was a breeze.

Yes, Acronis was super easy.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

I was about to clone my C drive with Macrium Reflect, and it showed me this. It's a 500 GB SSD. Why is it broken up like this?

I believe it is showing 5 separate drives. Uncheck all but the c drive and you should be good to go.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

aphelps wrote:

I believe it is showing 5 separate drives. Uncheck all but the c drive and you should be good to go.

And your belief is based on what criteria?
They are five separate LOGICAL drives. They COULD be five PHYSICAL partitions on ONE drive -OR- three partitions on one drive and two other separate physical drives.
I seriously doubt that his cloner is looking at multiple drives.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

Longshadow wrote:

And your belief is based on what criteria?
They are five separate LOGICAL drives. They COULD be five PHYSICAL partitions on ONE drive -OR- three partitions on one drive and two other separate physical drives.
I seriously doubt that his cloner is looking at multiple drives.

The drives are labled with different capacities. If they were partitions of one drive their total capacity would be larger than the physical drive.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Because it's messing with you. It's personal!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

aphelps wrote:

The drives are labled with different capacities. If they were partitions of one drive their total capacity would be larger than the physical drive.

??????

475.400+ (Gb)
000.099+ (Gb) (99Mb)
000.527+ (527Mb)
000.016+ (16Mb)
000.476= (476Mb)
Totals 476.518 Gb

Reported size = 476.940Gb

Size of drive probably 500Gb. (leaving 23.482Gb for overhead and the FAT)
One drive, five partitions.

aphelps Loc: Central Ohio

Longshadow wrote:

??????

475.400+ (Gb)
000.099+ (Gb) (99Mb)
000.527+ (527Mb)
000.016+ (16Mb)
000.476= (476Mb)
Totals 476.518 Gb

Reported size = 476.940Gb

Size of drive probably 500Gb. (leaving 23.482Gb for overhead and the FAT)
One drive, five partitions.

You are correct.