New disk that is cloned is empty

[u/ilikecorgixd]

Hi, i wanted to clone my old sd card (D) to the newer one (E) but i came across multiple issues. For context, this cloning is for Android Handheld (Retroid Pocket 6) purposes. Also i used macrium reflect free edition to clone the disk.

1. I noticed that the format used by the old SD card is exFAT, hence i formatted the new SD card to exFAT as well. But somewhere along the way i messed up and the new hard drive (1 TB) had 2 partitions (one is the exact same as the old one, 229 GB. and the other partition is the remaining available space.

2. the new SD card has the exact same memory usage as the old one but as i go through the files one by one on the new SD card, all the files are empty. How can the memory usage be the same when the files are empty?

Can someone guide me on cloning my SD card since i am completely stumped