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Upgrading laptop from HD to SSD

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I use Acronis True Image for backup on 3 different machines. One of them is a Dell Inspiron 15R laptop with a platter 1TB HD that I want to upgrade to a 1TB SSD. Can I use Acronis True Image 2020 to copy the current HD image, then reinstall the image onto the SDF once the SSD is installed? If so, is there a tutorial for doing this?

The replacement SSD appears to come with a Win10 image already loaded.

 

Thanks.

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Pathfinder, you can use ATI 2020 to help you migrate from your HDD to the new SSD.

Any new SSD should normally come as an uninitialised disk with no content, so if your new SSD looks to have Windows 10 on it, then it would suggest to me that it is one that someone else has returned to the vendor!  I would contact the company supplying the new SSD to ask about why it has data already on it?

I have always used Backup & Recovery to migrate to a new drive.

The steps in outline are as follows:

  1. Create the Acronis Rescue Media (use the Simple option for WinPE)
  2. Test booting your PC from the rescue media, ensuring you understand how to boot in UEFI mode and can 'see' your current drive and an external backup drive to hold a full disk backup image.
  3. Make a new full Disk backup of the working drive to an external drive as a one-off backup action.
  4. Shutdown the PC, remove the current drive and install the new one.
  5. Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with your backup drive connected.
  6. Recover the Backup from step 3. to the new drive.
  7. Check the Log messages before exiting from the rescue media (all logs are lost on exit) to check all is OK.
  8. If all ok, disconnect the external drive, remove the rescue media and restart the PC normally from the new drive.
  9. When you have confirmed all is ok with the new drive, make a new backup again to include any new device drivers installed for the new drive.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media