When using Clonezilla to clone a storage HDD, do I clone boot loader to target disk?

[soarwitheagles]

Hi all!

Ok, I have a storage HDD that is getting some hours on it. I would like to clone all my data, including my Itunes, WMP, etc. files to a new drive and then remove the old drive. After doing this operation, I would like my computer to read from the new drive exactly as if it was the old drive.

I have read Clonezilla's instructions, but not sure if I am to clone boot loader to target disk. Boot loader sounds like something the drive with the OS has on it.

Can someone help me please? So far, I have read these instructions found here:

Disk to disk clone

Am I missing something?

Thank you,

Soar

 

[soarwitheagles]

Well, no one answered me. I did select clone boot loader to target disk when Clonezilla asked me. The result? Well, at first everything worked literally flawlessly.

Then, after one day, I suddenly received the very first BSOD ever on this system [one year old system].

No more BSOD's since then and I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

Still wondering why no one could answer my initial question.

Soar

 

[S0ULphIRE]

This section doesn't get a lot of views, your thread you can see only got 26 or so, so it's likely nobody who knew what they were talking about actually viewed the thread
To answer your question, yep you've got the right idea about boot loaders. Basically exactly what it sounds like
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