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Trying to move OS and everything else to SSD, Have some questions.

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I recently bought an SSD from crucial and want to move my OS and everything else, over to it. I started the cloning process but after I selected the destination drive, a message popped up stating that there are partitions on the destination HARD drive and to delete them. I know I selected the SSD for destination, so why is it calling it a Hard drive? Also as far as I know there is nothing on the SSD unless partitions come on drives already installed. What do I do here?

My other question is, if I keep the HDD plugged in but change the OS file path name will that solve the boot with two OS issues I've read about? and still be able to use it for storage?

Thank you.

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Noidea, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

Important: please make a full disk backup of your original OS drive to an external backup drive before attempting any further clone actions.  This is your protection against any mistakes that could leave you with an expensive door stop!

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.

With regards to your questions:

I started the cloning process but after I selected the destination drive, a message popped up stating that there are partitions on the destination HARD drive and to delete them. I know I selected the SSD for destination, so why is it calling it a Hard drive? Also as far as I know there is nothing on the SSD unless partitions come on drives already installed. What do I do here?

New SSD drives are often delivered as uninitialised and therefore do not show up in the list of drives to clone to, so I would suspect that you had picked a second drive within your computer!

Use the Acronis 'Add new disk' tool to prepare the new SSD and initialise it in the same partition scheme as your current disk uses.  To check the current partition scheme, run the command: msinfo32 in Windows and look at the BIOS mode value - if this shows as UEFI, then the partition scheme should be GPT, otherwise it is MBR.

My other question is, if I keep the HDD plugged in but change the OS file path name will that solve the boot with two OS issues I've read about? and still be able to use it for storage?

No!  Please do not do this!  You should remove the HDD and replace it by the cloned SSD then boot into Windows with just the SSD installed to ensure that you can boot correctly into Windows.  If all is ok, then connect the HDD externally by USB using a dock or adapter, then reformat that HDD before installing it as a second Data / storage drive in the computer.