Going from 32GB SSD to 128GB SSD

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I have pretty much filled my 32GB SSD drive and keep getting warning about low disk space, so I feel I must upgrade to a larger one.
The drive has all my windows installation on and a lot of other program's program files and setup files etc.

What is the best way of transferring all this onto the new SSD so that my PC just carries on as per normal, albeit with a load more space on the C drive?

Thank you
 
Do a disk image and restore that disk image to the new disk. I use drive snapshot to do exactly that.
 
Would that create only 1 partition?
I tried it using Acronis True Image, and it restored the existing info to a partition the size of the information, and then gave me a new partition with remaining space... so I had a C and D drive on the same drive...
Ideally want the whole C drive to be one drive
 
Yes, I believe so. You'll need to look at the instructions, but there's certainly a command line option for it (see: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/commandline.htm)

drive snapshot said:
--resize X: - show possible resize range for drive X:
--resize X: 1000 - (try to) resize drive X: to 1000 MB
--resizepart X: 1000 - (try to) grow partition and filesystem to 1000 MB
resizepart is unable to shrink partitions or filesystems!
Click to expand...

I'd expect Acronis to have a similar option somewhere (and it's probably more user friendly than DS).
 
Disk management in win 7 can resize partitions too. It will make system images too that can be restored (not sure if that is only certain versions of 7).

I took an image of my SSD before doing my upgrade just now. I'd forgotten my firefox bookmarks and mounted the image as a virtual hard drive in windows computer management/ drive management and got the bookmarks off it :)
 
Aha... didn't realise Windows 7 did that (I've been using Drive Snapshot and its differential backup capabilities) since before I was on Win 7...

Yup, looks like you have everything you need with Win7
 
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