

This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.
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put your SSD at the same spot at your current disk. You can leave content and move it later out of the SSD. uninstall any program you don't want on the SSD (eg: games, ). Include all partitions, even the hidden ones (no need to use the sector by sector setting)
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do a full backup of your current disk (before changing the partition size). Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference, Use Windows disk management to verify that the active partition on the system disk. Then hopefully i can boot from the new SSD.Īm I on the right track? Are there any tips or anything that i am missing? Then once the clone is complete i want to unplug my current HDD and leave it there in case IĮver need it again. Then backup to it from the backup that i just created (the backup is stored on another HDD on

then find the SSD and format it to NTFS and Then make a recovery disk and boot from that. When i clone i maybe can do a straight clone? Or will I still have to so some sort of alignment?ī) then can you give me a step by step way to do the whole clone thing? I know that this has been explainedīy you all numerous times but there are so many variables that I get confused and don't end up doing the HDDĬ)I think that if i re-size the partition on the old 320 to 120Gb and then do the backup I will have it readyįor cloning. How do I clone the current 320 to a 120 properly?Ī) does Acronis TIH 11 have a way to partition my current 320 to 120Gb? or what can I use do that? That way Current HDD is a 320Gb, only useing 64Gb of space
