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Ref: In my case I used a 256GB SSD to which I have to clone a 1TB HDD, so after I drag dropped the first 3 partitions(ESP, None, OS) I wasn’t left with any space as the OS(C:) drive took all the remaining space in the SSD.

Following Image is just for illustration purpose.

Adjusting can be done in the following way – Select the partition that you want to change size(by clicking on it) and then click on ‘Cloned Partition Properties’ and now adjust the space by adjusting the slider in that windows (Please adjust only the C: drive space and don’t adjust the space of remaining partitons).

Adjust the C: drive size such that you should be able to accomodate the remaining 2 partitions (Win RE tools and Image partitions as seen in the picture above for GPT Disk 1) after C: drive.

Here comes the tricky part, carefully drag and drop partitions One by One in the same sequence as the HDD (Don’t change the sequence) to the SSD (i.e.Source to Destination).

Select the “Source Disk” as your HDD(Will have 5 Patitions(ESP, None, OS, WINRETOOLS, Image) and “Destination Disk” as your SSD(Empty with out partitions).

Once the installation is complete open the software.

Download Macrium Reflect software from the link provided (Please be advised that you need a working internet connection to use this software for the first time as it is going to download the windows RE environment once you start installing the software).

Macrium Reflect Free Edition ( Link to Download).

I am writing this blog all because I faced alot of difficulty to migrate the OS to the SSD as there is no specific tutorial around the web to do this.

This is the process I followed to migrate my OS to the SSD without losing the recovery system that comes in built with your Alienware 15 R2. This tutorial is all bout how to migrate OS to the SSD in Alienware 15 R2.