My 500GB hard drive reported a failure to Windows (I have Windows 7) and I want to clone this drive to a good 1TB drive before the 500GB drive stops working. I have been reading the manuals on how to use Clonezilla to do a disk-to-disk copy, but one thing I haven't seen specifically is what preparation the target HDD needs to have done to it before using Clonezilla.
Do I need to format the 1TB drive or will Clonezilla do that? (I suspect the answer is probably Yes format before running Clonzezilla but I wanted to make sure)
If I format it using my current Windows 7 before using Clonezilla, do I need to check the "make bootable" checkbox when using the Windows format utility, or will Clonezilla take care of making the target drive bootable?
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No, the destination drive doesn't need to have a partition table, partitions, or filesystem applied. Only the source needs to.