Cloning Windows EFI dedicated disk

[imrazor]

I currently have a Mac Pro 5,1 with a dedicated Mac SSD, dedicated Windows hard drive, and a shared data drive. What I want to do is clone my Windows hard drive to a new SATA SSD to give Windows a speed boost. What tool(s) should I use? Could I use 'dd' from the Mac SSD to clone the Windows drive to an SSD, and then use a Linux live disk to 'expand' the partitions to fit the new disk (thinking gparted here)? Would such a clone be capable of booting?

 

[Joeronzk]

The windows hard drive is for Boot Camp partition? If yes, you can use WinClone to migrate boot camp to new drive.

 

[imrazor]

Because the cMP 5,1 is no longer supported by Apple or the Boot Camp Assistant, the Windows install on my Mac Pro is no longer a 'real' Boot Camp install, even though its got a lot of the components. And it's not a partition - it's an entire dedicated hard drive. Except it's too small (150GB, yikes) and too slow, even at 10,000RPM.

I'm just not sure if the Apple firmware/software does anything funky with partition labels or layout that would trip up a standard Windows cloning utility, or even a Linux tool like gparted.

 

[imrazor]

This plan worked out perfectly. I installed the SSD in the extra optical bay and used 'dd' to clone the Windows boot drive to it. I then shutdown, removed the old hard drive, booted back into MacOS and used Startup Disk to select the new Windows volume. It booted up with no issues at all.

Once I was in Windows I use able to use the Drive Management utility to expand the last partition to the end of the SSD. (The original hard drive was a fair bit smaller than the new SSD.)