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What To Do After Cloning A Disc

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I'm thinking of cloning my main disc (C:) with Windows 10 with a bigger drive. I understand the concept of the cloning but what do I do afterwards to make the new cloned disc the C: drive and bootable?

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Louise, welcome to these public User Forums.

What type of PC is this?  Is it a desktop / tower PC or is it a laptop / notebook PC?

What version & build of Acronis True Image are you using?
This is shown on the Account page in the ATI GUI, i.e. ATI 2021 #30290 per this forum.

How does your PC boot from the BIOS into Windows?
Run the command: msinfo32 in Windows and look for the BIOS mode value in the right panel of the report it produces.  Does this show UEFI or does it show Legacy (or a disk drive make)?

What version of Windows is being used?  Is this Windows 10?

How are you intending to perform the disk clone?
Is this from Windows using the ATI GUI application?
Or is it from the Acronis Rescue Media used to boot the PC?

What type of SSD are you cloning to?
Is it a SATA SSD (the same type as your source drive being cloned from)?
Is it a NVMe M.2 SSD?

What drive are you cloning from?