Backing Up and Restoring Question
I have a PC that I built myself and my main drive is a SSD drive, maybe 240Gig.
I purchased another SSD drive but bigger in size. It is a 960GIG.
I have backed up my C: drive to another drive on the my PC. I have also cloned the C: drive to an external HD.
So, here is what steps I am going to do to make the switch.
1. Shut down the computer and remove the C: SSD drive
2. Install the larger SSD where the other one was.
3. Boot from my rescue DVD I made.
4. Install the clone onto the new bigger SSD. Altho I am not quite sure what people here are saying about both drive being the same in order to restore the clone to the new drive.
5, Restart with the new SSD and hope the computer gods have seen fit to bless me with a carbon copy of my old drive with all the programs and files put back where they were.
Does that seem like a good solid plan? If not, why not?


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Rich,
In Acronis parlance, a clone is a single operation, as Steve describes.
A "disk and partition backup" however is different. It creates first an archive TIB file that contains an image of all the information on the disk. You then restore this image on the new disk.
So if by "cloning" you mean "imaging", and "installing the clone" you mean "restoring the image", then yes, you procedure is right. Just make sure you actually take the imaged disk out of the computer, put the new disk on the same connector.
Make sure your rescue media is booting on the same BIOS setting as your original system disk. BIOS if you were on a legacy BIOS/MBR set up, UEFI if you were on a UEFI/GPT set up.
Never boot the computer with bot the original and the restored/cloned disk at the same time in the computer. After the computer has booted OK on the restored/cloned disk, you can reconnect the older disk to the system and do whaterver you want with it.
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