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Having trouble restoring full backup to new SSD

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I'm trying to restore my old 120gb SSD onto a brand new 250GB SSD. I had a partition on the old drive, 60 for the OS and the rest for programs, but I want to install the full back up onto the new SSD without any partition. I'm not sure how to do this. I think I'm allocating the space wrong in the UI because when I go to write it, it fails. Should I be using "recover whole disks and partitions" or just "chosen files and folders" in the Recovery Method if I don't want to make a partition? It's a bit confusing for me so any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I had a partition on the old drive, 60 for the OS and the rest for programs, but I want to install the full back up onto the new SSD without any partition.

The common meaning for 'Partition' is not a state where hard disk has more than one volume on it, but these volumes themselves. So you had 2 partitions and want to have only 1.
You need to restore first the image of the system partition, allocating the entire unallocated space for it, then restore 'as files and folders' the second partition, selecting the partition on the target drive as a target too.
Then you probably need to assign another disk letter to this only partition, the same letter as the your source second partition had, or the programs that were installed there may stop working.
p.s- are you actually using "True Image Home " (2012, 2011 or older) or "Backup & Recovery " (11 or 10) ? "True Image Home " also has "backup & Recovery" text on its box, but these are different products.

Thank you, dev-anon. Still having some setbacks, but you're correct I just want to create one partition from 2.
I got it to copy the C last night - recovered C and MBR but all I could do was boot to win7, but no programs were installed (as they were in the D drive).
It also copied over the C partition with the C files though, and that has hardly any space left on it (why I got a bigger SSD). So I am still doing something wrong. After deleting the drive, and trying acronis again, the same process did not work. I get "Recovery operation failed". I have Acronis True Image Home 2012. I'm not sure what the 1-1 partition is or what I need to be selecting to get it all on the new drive. Wish I could give you clearer info than that. I'm brand new to all this. I took some shots with my camera of the menus I'm having problems understanding.

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