In other words, if the primary image on the original drive is 350 gig, then when restoring the image to the SSD, the primary partition of the new SSD has to be at least 350 gig. Steve's way will work, however, the image cloned to the logical partition on the new SSD will have to be the same size or smaller than the primary partition of the original CD. I would copy it, however, to an external hard drive, and not use the disk space of the image on the logical partition. In addition the image of the primary partition is already on the new SSD in the logical partition (if that is where you want to keep it). The restore process will take less time as well compared to restoring from a slave interal drive and/or from an external drive via USB 2.0 or 3.0. Then restore the image from the new SSD logical partition over to the primary partition as Steve did. Since the new SSD drive has to be installed anyway, might as well install it and then copy the cloned image to it. At least that is my understanding of at least one way to clone to a new hard drive. The important step is that that SSD or eSata drive that you are cloning to is installed as the primary drive in your laptop and/or workstation.

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