Cloning disc with EASEUS Partition Manager

[stevenrw]

Its me again. Finally found somewhere doing a 1tb Caviar Black at under £90 so I'll be upgrading my system drive from a green 1tb very soon.
EASEUS Partition Manager has a tool for doing exactly that and will make it bootable.
So (and excuse my overcaution/ignorance, this procedure is a first for me) this means that once the cloning has been done, the machine shut down, and the old master drive disconnected, rebooting will automatically make the cloned disc the system drive "C" - yes? (There will still be a non-system data only drive installed).
Presumably because the software will need to know the source and destination drives for cloning, one has to format the new drive prior to cloning?
Lastly, partitioning the drive into two after cloning (again using EASEUS) will just give me the additional drive letter I need, it won't destroy the data I've cloned across will it?

[Steve]

You should't need to format the drive prior to cloning otherwise all sounds good. The last bit creating the second partition is where data can be lost but hopefully not . If the cloned partition is 1TB you will have to shrink that prior to creating the new partition ( should occur without data loss) if the cloned partition is smaller the free space can be used to create a second partition.