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I am a novice to cloning and require some advice. I am upgrading my 60gb OCZ SSD to a Crucial 250GB SSD. The old SSD contains only operating system Win 7x64 and a few programs that require to be on Drive C: and only a minimal amount of data which I have backed up. My requirement is to have the whole new drive for C: My questions are as follows :
1. Once I install the new SSD on a spare internal connection do I format and partition it before running True Image software or is that automatically done by the software?
2. Do I only require one partition?

I appreciate these may be a basic questions but not having attempted this before I am quite cautious.
Thanks in advance.

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The user manual is has good references.

http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2015/index.html#2…

Cloning from the TI Recovery CD is the recommended procedure for laptops.

Upon completion of cloning, do be sure and remove the orignal connection so only the newly cloned disk is attached during first bootup following clone. It is not good (Windows gets confused) to have two identical disks attached so be sure and disconnect original disk before first boot following clone.

Rather then cloning, creating a disk image backup and then restoring the same backup onto your new disk is the preferred means of upgrading to a new disk, preferred by many as it removes the original disk from the hazards of a user mistake or malfunction if cloning is the function being performed.

Thanks for reply. It seems that backing up is best. When I have backed up drive c to another drive and having connected new target drive do I have to format and partition new drive before restoring backup or is this done automatically when choosing restore?