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Hi all, Just got my Acronis 2020 today. Does anyone know if I can mirror just my operating system from my old hard drive and put it on my new ssd drive without getting the sluggishness from the old hard drive? It will be going into the same computer.

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Frank, welcome to these public User Forums.

Quick answer is no - you cannot just copy only your Windows OS using any Acronis product.

The longer answer is that you can migrate your current OS drive & all its partitions from a slower, spinning HDD drive to a new logical SSD drive, to help improve performance, but this will bring across all the accumulated data built up over the years of use for the OS.

The only guaranteed method of getting back to the look, feel and performance of a new OS install is to do just that.  Windows 10 does offer the opportunity to 'reset' your computer to a bare minimum install which would do similar.

Thanks Steve, appreciate the response. Ive done cloning before but am totally new to mirroring and how to do it, I dont even see 'mirroring' anywhere in my acronis 2020

Frank, Acronis do not use the term mirroring in any of their products as far as I know.  Mirroring in my experience was related to RAID, i.e. where an array of drives mirrored to each other.

See the links in my signature and in particular the one describing the difference between backup and clone, which is where you are looking towards with your questions.

I would recommend reading through the first few sections of the ATI 2020 User Guide which will give you a good introduction to how to use the application.