Requesting guidance for upgrading a single partition on a drive

Fellow users,
I'm reaching out for any help you can offer on a specific scenario I'm considering that may be a bit out of the ordinary.
I currently have a single regular HDD that houses my system backups on one partition, some photos and videos on another, and game installs (Steam etc.) on a third. I'm considering adding an SSD to my system to take the game installations. The idea would be to use ATI to clone or backup/restore the game partition to the new SSD and then expand the backup partition on the old drive so I can keep a longer backup history.
My question is: is there a way to do this where I can migrate the installs and drive letter and Windows will accept the new SSD as the new location for that drive without confusing it with the old drive? Not sure if I can just switch drive letters and have things work or if Windows 10 is now tracking disks with GUIDs or some other method such that my game installs will break post migration.
Thanks for any help you can offer. Really appreciate everybody who takes their time to help on these forums.
Best,
Philip.


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Thanks Steve. I guess it's the reliance on disk signature and/or volume ID that I'm concerned about, but I suppose there's no way around that without just copying the entire drive. I'd prefer not to do that, but on reflection maybe it would be easier to copy the entire drive to the SSD and then move back the backup and photo partitions. Finally I could enlarge the game partition on the new drive. That way the disk signature would be preserved for the games.
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Philip, if copying the entire drive to the SSD then your next challenge are the sizes involved for doing this. Typically HDD's are larger than SSD's unless you are willing to pay a premium to purchase a large drive. You may want to have an intermediate drive where you could move the bulkier data from the HDD to and then reduce the data footprint on the HDD to a minimum that you want to move to the SSD.
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