
Cloning software put MSR partition first, before EFI system partition
I cloned a windows system from one SSD to another with Acronis, but I noticed that it placed the MSR partition as the first partition. On most standard windows systems, the first partition is the EFI system partition (ESP), the MSR is placed between the ESP and the primary partition (C:\), and the offset of the first partition is usually 1MB.
In my case, the cloning software put the MSR first, with an offset of just 17KB. Now technically the GPT partition table only requires 17KB of space (LBA0-33, each 512B), but it seems to be standard practice across both windows and linux to have the first partition start at an offset of 1MB. It also made the MSR 128MB (which is the spec for older versions of windows), instead of 16MB, the recommended size for windows 10/11; although this itself isn't a big concern. The ESP is aligned at exactly 129.00MB, so the MSR is technically 128MB+1007KB in size.
The system is running fine for now, but my main concern is: will the 17KB offset cause issues in the future if windows ever needs to utilize the MSR for whatever reason? In that case windows may start to create partitions or write data within that first 1MB of space (between offset 17KB and 1MB) which is normally supposed to be reserved exclusively for the GPT partition table.
Is it worth using something like GParted to delete the MSR, move the ESP to the start (offset 1MB) and then re-create the MSR in its correct place between the ESP and primary partition?