I Purchased a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO to uprgrade my XPS 13 256 SSD, as I was runnning out of space.
The laptop has previoiusly been completely backed up including bootable rescue USB
I have the new 1TB SSD in an external USB enclosure
I would like to clone the existing drive
I am using Samsung's data migration SW (but will use better SW if recommended)
Question: Since the Dell recovery partitions are encrypted and tatooed to the original HD can I just copy overy the O.S. (C) partition and the EFI partion and my computer will boot ok? I also am not interested in keeping the OEM partitions, as I don't use the Intel rapid start technology.
In Summary
O.S. << Clone
EFI << Clone
Recovery << Do not clone
OEM (with intel rapid start) << Do not clone