How to replace system drive in Yoga 13?

When I purchased my Yoga 13 in January 2013, I also purchased a second SSD and added it to my system. Now I need even more storage (of course!). I'd really prefer to replace the original system drive if possible. I checked it out, though, and it came with EIGHT partitions, 2 of which are formatted and have drive letters. I'm assuming the others have important-but-not-readable-by-humans stuff (maybe recovery info) that should be kept as well.
If I temporarily put my new 512-GB SSD in the second slot (that was empty when the machine originally shipped), is there a way for my to copy EVERYTHING from the original drive over to it, make it a boot drive, and then move it into the first drive slot?

Hi S,
If you have the newer unibody style, it's very easy. If it's one of the earlier models, it's considerably more difficult. Go to Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info > Hardware and find your Model Identifier. Then go to ifixit.com, or powerbookmedic.com or macsales.com or youtube or others and there are illustrated, detailed directions. Good luck to you and post back if you have further questions.

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You're welcome, Tim.
What operating system are you installing on the machine?
The specs state it shipped with W7 Basic. That OS should load without issues.
If you are trying to install XP, it will not install unless you load the SATA ACHI drivers either at the F6 prompt or you need to slipstream them into a copy of your XP installation.
If you are attempting to install XP, please read this link below and that should solve that issue.
Your notebook has the Intel NM10 Express Chipset.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and/SATA-drivers-for-XP-solution-on-0x000000...
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I have a Xserve running OS X Server v 10.5
Right now it has the 80GB apple drive module, and it is really full. I want to replace the module with a larger drive, probably the 160GB module. What would be the best way of swaping the drives?
I was thinking of maybe booting the server in target disk mode and using disk utility to create an image of the system drive, but I"m not to clear on how to "install" that image on the new drive.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Step One: Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
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Hi there,
I want to replace my system drive with a larger drive. What is the best method for copying over the entire system drive and make it bootable as it will become my new system drive?
Cheers,
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