> If you clone it, be sure to boot from the SSD at least once without the HDD
> connected. Otherwise you may end up using the boot files on the old drive. The
> problem is that Windows uses the disk signature (or I guess volume signature) to find
> the boot files. If you clone the drive, both drives end up with the same signature.
> That's why you are better off booting with the original drive unplugged. Then at
> least change the signature of the old drive.
That definitely sound like what I'll need to do, though I will need to look up what you're talking about with changing the signature. Krick suggested plugging the 2TB drive afterward via a USB adapter so will look into that as well. That said, I am guessing that in order to clone a larger drive, I'm going to need to move off the extra data anyway so there is under 512GB to clone. If I have to do that anyway, I suppose it wouldn't be much more to just format it after the clone successfully boots.
Still, it would be nice to just have the Windows 10 upgrade actually install as a dual-boot to the new drive leaving Windows 7 alone for the time being, but I suppose the free upgrade doesn't work that way.
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