Windows 10: Copying entire C drive running W10 over to a new C drive with no OS on it

HiI hope this idea is correct....!I wanted to upgrade my W10 to W11 but my 7 year old desktop is too old to run it. I have ordered a newer, more modern desktop WITHOUT an OS on the C drive.My idea is to copy the entire W10 C drive over to the new one using Acronis and when installed hopefully! I can then upgrade to W11.Will this idea work?Thanks in advance for your help.Nigel Tupman

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Copy OS to new drive on Windows 10

Original title: Upgrading a W10 Hard Drive with a new Hard Drive

I have a SSD hard drive in my PC running W10 and other apps and it is stating that the drive is almost full. It wasn't a very large drive and I am looking to replace it. Can I copy the OS to a new drive then format the old drive or do I need to add the
new drive and load the OS from scratch then format the old drive?

 

how to copy the existing Windows 10 installation to the new drive and how to make the new drive the active OS drive.

Original Title - Change Windows 10 hard drive

I just added two hard drives to my tower. I found instructions for copying the existing Windows 10 installation to the new drive online, but it seems to be missing a last step - how to make the new drive the active OS drive.

Here is my current situation. I have Windows 10 installed on my C: drive. I copied C: to H: and changed the BIOS boot order to have H: drive first, I think. However, it still seems to be booting from C: drive, and I verified this by trying to format C: drive
and being warned that it contains Windows, so it can't be deleted.

How should I resolve this issue?

 

Installing Windows on my new C drive

Current Situation: My C Disk is cramming up and I decided to change a new C disk.

Currently my computer storage is composed of an SSD (being my C disk) and an HDD. I bought a new SSD and desire to somehow transfer my current system into the new SSD along with the current environmental variables, user data, both program files folder, and
various other folders instead of installing a brand new system on my new C drive.

Questions I am currently wondering:

1. I noticed the function provided by windows called "Create a system image". Currently my softwares are distributed evenly in my C drive (SSD) and D drive (HDD). I am not changing my HDD, so softwares installed there will not be removed. If I only choose
   to backup my system in my C drive, can I still run my softwares on my HDD after changing a C drive and reinstalling Windows using the generated ISO file?
2. Does this function "create a system image" pack up the environmental variables, registry, along with all other folders in my C drive, or only the minimal system?
3. If I extract the system image ISO into my new C drive, can I somehow "extract" from the ISO file to create a new system in my new drive? If not, is it possible to make my new C drive a windows Boot USB, and directly installing the windows system onto itself?
4. What is your suggested method of making this move?

Thank you for your help!!