Puzzled of Warks is back.
Perhaps Wikipedia has the
answer to both of my questions.
My
bold:
"Until the release of ATA-2 standard in 1996, there were a handful of large hard drives which did not support LBA addressing, so only Large or Normal methods could be used. However using the Large method also introduced portability problems, as different BIOSes often used different and incompatible translation methods, and hard drives partitioned on a computer with BIOS from a particular vendor often could not be read on a computer with a different make of BIOS."
I did
not partition the clone HDD but some time ago I
did partition the donor HDD. When the PC was new I partitioned the latter (donor) HDD as C and D but then changed my mind and completely reformatted it as C before a ground-up rebuild of the O/S. This means that the C partition was created by the BIOS on my PC. The clone HDD however is box-fresh from Seagate; all I have done is format it and then use it as the target to receive a clone.
I guess the proof of the pudding would be to put the clone HDD through the same repartitioning process as its donor, and then reverse it with a full reformat, but what I read on Wikipedia does at least appear to make sense.
A logical interpretation or barking up the wrong tree?
Ta,
XV