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Help swapping new SSD

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I image my SSD (120GB) weekly.
Eventually I will need to buy a bigger SSD.
But totally clear on what to do.
And forgive me in advance if not using the right techno speak.

I my SSD as the C drive.
The Acronis images are on a separate internal (HHD) drive.

1. Can I take a current image (full back up of both partitions - the system reserved and the main) and burn or clone that to my new SSD, which I could connect to my PC via USB cables, then swap out the old drive with the new?

or

2. insert my ACronis bootable disc and shut down the PC.
Then Swap out the old SSD with the new one.
Next after hoping the disc will start , and allowing me to point to the image I want off of the back up drive?

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You would simply take the weekly image you have, and restore it on the new SSD, using the recovery CD, after you have placed it in the system on the same connector as the old disk. Make sure that:
- your weekly image includes all partitions,
- you don't reboot the system with both SSD in the computer the first time. After a successful reboot on the new SSD, you can reconnet the old one to another connector and repurpose it.

So to clarify:
1. Would I first insert the recovery CD?
2. Turn off the PC.
3. disconnect the old SSD and replace with the new one?
4. Turn on the PC and run recovery CD.
5. hopefully soon I should see a window pop up asking to recover an image.
6. At that point, locate the image (which does have all partitions) and then perform a recovery?

That about right?
Thx. Want to dble check so as not to do anything wrong.

So to clarify:

2. Turn off the PC.
3. disconnect the old SSD and replace with the new one?
Insert the recovery CD
4. Turn on the PC and boot on the recovery CD.
5. hopefully soon I should see a window pop up asking to recover an image.
6. At that point, locate the image (which does have all partitions) and then perform a recovery?

Yes.