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My PC is set up like this at the moment:
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As you can see, it contains one 3TB HDD, which is divided into several partitions:
2 of them are hidden System/OEM drives.
C:\ contains the Windows 8 OS.
D:\ appears to contain the OEM recovery image (the drive is visible for some reason).
K:\ is just a storage drive.

E:\ which is on its own disk, is a small SSD which the manufacturer says is some sort of caching system for the larger disk, for speeding up boot times, etc. It shows up as an empty 16GB drive on windows explorer, so I am not sure what it's doing really. According to their support, the SSD can be removed/replaced, so it seems it's not some sort of critical component or anything.

And lastly, the PC has an OEM bootup recovery system, where you hit a hotkey during boot to launch into a recovery program.

Now, what I am interested in doing is:
1) Remove the small SSD from Disk 1
2) Put a new large SSD in Disk 1
3) Clone all the partitions on the HDD to the new SSD (Would involve resizing partitions to fit, etc)
4) Reformat the HDD as an empty data drive
5) Swap the positions of the two drives, so the new SSD is now in Disk 0, with the same partitions as the original HDD.

The idea is to migrate all the operating system and OEM stuff to an SSD, while preserving disk number, drive letters, partitions, hidden partitions, and custom OEM recovery stuff. Essentially I want to change the Disk 0 hardware without any change/interference to any software. Is this possible? The steps above are just from my limited knowledge of hardware experience.

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