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Switching to a new SSD?

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I've had a string of broken USB to SATA cords, so I've decided to fully back my computer up into an external hdd - using Acronis - and then swap in the SSD. Could I then use an Acronis Bootable Media USB to restore the backup onto the fresh SSD? Or would this cause some problems?

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I am not 100% certain what you plan doing.

You can clone your system disk to a new SSD (provided it has sufficient capacity). While this can be done from within Acronis, it is better to use the recover media (USB sick or CD) to clone the disk. The target disk can be attahced to the computer either via a SATA port or using a USB docking station. Once the cloning is completed, you will need to diconnect the old drive and connect the replacement one to the same SATA port on the main board.

The thing I am not sure about is the statment of backing up to an external HDD. I assume this is separate to the cloning of the intrenal HDD. It is a good idea to backup before doing the clone - I always do so.

Ian

PS If you system disk uses raid, you will need to create a WinPE recovery media to which you have added the raid drivers. If the computer uses UEFI rather than BIOS you may need to adjust the settings to successfully doot the recovery media.

I'm a little confused by the scenario too.  If you have an original OS drive and take a backup of it to an external drive (a backup in .tib format) and then plan to remove/replace the original drive with a different SSD or another SATA drive, then yes, this should work just fine - that's the intention of the backup and recovery process.  Just make sure that when you take your backup image, that you backup  the entire disk (do a full disk backup with all partitions).  When you restore, do a "full disk" restore to the new drive.  

Cloning should work the same way, but I personally recommedn a backup and restore over a clone as it provides a backup (just in case) and is less picky about varitions with disks.  Even the clone procedures recommedn you take a backup as a precaution, so if you already have backup, just restore it instead of trying to clone to the new disk.