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Transferring the C drive within the same computer/motherboard

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Hi All, Need your assistance. My computer's C drive is a 64GB SSD. Yes you guessed it this is way too small and I am planning to upgrade to a 512GB ASAP. I bought /upgraded my Acronis in the hopes that I could make a bootable copy of the current C and transfer it to the new SSD making it the new C drive and renaming the old small SSD. What do you think? Any hope and how could I go about doing this short of re-starting the whole computer.
Thanks in advance for your time.

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This is pretty easy to do.
The best approach is to:
- do a complete backup of your current SSD, including all the partitions (switch to disk mode when you select what to backup, select the entire disk http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705 ),
- store that backup on a USB disk,
- shut down the computer, put the new SSD on the same connector, remove the old SSD completely,
- boot on the recovery CD and recovery your entire disk (click the box at the disk level when selecting what to restore) to your new SSD. ATI should:
- automatically scale the C:\system partition, but not the hidden system reserved partition
- preserve the disk alignment (1MB offset before the first partition, all partitions with a whole number of MB as size)
- boot the computer on the new SSD
- then you can reconnect the OLD SSD to the computer if needed.

If you have more than the system reserved partition and the C:\system, or you want to control how ATI lays out your partitions on the new SSD, use rather this method, for an MBR disk:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/38522#comment-120956