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Clone new SSD from SSD and delete partitions on both SSD

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I'm putting a new SSD in my computer. I have a SSD already in my computer which is partitioned into C: and D: drives. What I want to do is put the new SSD into the system and make it the C: drive and Keep the one already in the computer as D: drive. I was going to clone the existing SSD to the new SSD which would move both the C: and D: drive to it. Then I was going to delete the file off of the D: drive on the new SSD and remove the partition with Windows 7 disk manager. I would than delete all of C: drive off of the old SSD and remove the partition using Windows 7 disk manager. I was hoping to end up with C: drive on my new SSD and D: drive on my old SSD. Can someone tell me if this would work and would the new C: drive recognize the D: drive and all the programs on them?  If not what would be the best course of action to separate these two drive on to two separate SSD's. Thanks for the help!

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Should work... I'd recommend using a 3rd party tool for the paritioning like minitool parition wizard free which will make the partiioning a lot simpler and probably more reliable too.  You'll really want to do this offline since blowing away D if it has installed apps is likely to give you problems the moment you do that.  Minitool partition wizard free is very reliable and effective (the current version 10 doesnt' offer a boot media anymore, you have to install it in Windows so make sure to install it on C since you'll be wiping out D.)  Otherwise there are some other good free paritioning tools (Google best free patition software - can't really name them here since some are also backup cometitors).  Otherwise Google around to see if you can find the previous minitool 9.1 iso which used to be included for free and would be ideal for paritioning while Windows is not in use.

1) take a full disk backup of the existing drive as-is - this is your safety net and recovery option should something go wrong with cloning or with partioning.

2) After the clone (assuming you put the new SSD where the original is and the original in an external caddy or something as is the recommended method), shutdown the pc and detacth the external drive (the one with the original data).

3) check the bios and make sure the cloned drive is the first boot priority and boot it up.  Does it look OK with C&D and and all seems well?

4) If all is well, shutdown and boot into your partition tool with it's rescue media.  Attach the original drive via USB again so that you have all paritions available.

5) Format the D: drive on the new SSD that you're booted into.  Delete the D parition.  Expand C to utilize all of the remaining space now.  

6) Do the same for C: on the old (original) drive that is attached via USB.  Delete C: drive, format (as well as any other partitions like EFI or recovery since you don't need those on the second drive either).  Then expand the volume that would represent the D drive out to use the entire disk.  

7) Attach the drives as need be if both are to be internal.  Double check the bios boot order that the new SSD is still the boot priority and fire up windows.  Windows will always be C.  Hopefully the old drive is D: still. If not, you may get a bunch of warnings and errors because the apps you installed on D: can't find D.  Go to computer management and reassign that partion as D: (if need be) and reboot one more time.