Cloning Vertex 450 128GB to MX100/840 256GB

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Hi,

I have a Vertex 450 128GB drive and want to get rid of it ASAP - my brother had one, it died. My friend had one, it died. I had one before this one which... died. I don't want to trust it for any longer than I have to. I want to clone it over to a new 240GB Evo/256GB MX100 using Acronis True Image I have from my dad's MX100 SSD, but am unsure how to go about doing this. I have a 500GB HDD which I am using for data storage/some programs, would these still function correctly and would the data be okay should I the SSDs over? Will all the file paths etc be unscathed? I am planning to do this;

Plug new SSD in, clone over
Switch PC off without booting from new SSD, take old SSD out, put new SSD into the old SSD SATA port in the motherboard
Boot from new SSD
Jobs a good 'un

Would this work?

Cheers,


Shiv
 
Okay, I got the 840 used. I plugged it in, booted from normal drive, the drive shows up as untitled?? How do I format the drive before cloning, right click format?? Any ideas why it's called untitled?
 
Cloned, got a few problems. First time I loaded up, asked to restart. I did - second time, my SpeedFan and Nvidia drivers had one of the usual clashes, restarted again. Third time, PC was being very slow for an SSD. Restarted, thinking it needed time to settle. Fourth time it tried to run a chkdisk D: and the third and fourth time I got this error
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What's that all about? D:
 
Yeah I think so, reinstalling with a clean install didn't help, still wants to run checkdisk and has that error. Should I run checkdisk?
 
No I didn't, because if I did the file paths would have all messed up for the secondary HDD? Going to run chkdisk now
 
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