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You can adjust the restored partition sizes when you stage the restore so you can restore all partitions in a single operation.

Restore the image file onto the new SSD. Capture an IMAGE of the ENTIRE original drive to a file on your external drive. That way you just generate a simple file on the external drive rather than mucking it up with a bunch of partitions, and you also get the performance and capacity benefits of compression, which you don’t with cloning. But more importantly, don’t use cloning use imaging. It’s not clear to me why you’re planning to handle the logical data partitions separately from the rest or how you intend to migrate the data in those partitions over to your new SSD as your last step, since nothing in your previous steps includes capturing that data in the first place. Are there any additional steps, or details that I need to take into account?

I would like confirmation that the process I have in mind is correct and workable. copy the backed up data onto the new SSD partitions adjust the System partition size and create three data partitions reboot the laptop from the new SSD (will this require any BIOS adjustments?) copy the three cloned partitions from the USB HDD to the new SSD boot the laptop with a Macrium rescue disk (on a USB stick), which I think should give me access to the external HDD replace the old SSD with the new empty SSD

clone the first three partitions of the existing SSD onto an external USB backup HDD The SSD has six partitions, a 100MB 16-bit FAT Primary, a 12GB NTFS Active Recovery partition, a 120GB NTFS Primary System partition and three NTFS Logical Data partitions.Īfter reading reading around the subject, my plan is as follows: The laptop has only one M.2 slot so I can't clone directly from one SSD to the other. I have a Dell Latitude E7470 laptop with a 256GB SATA M.2 SSD and would like to upgrade to a 512GB SSD.