Pavilion Slimline s3760a: Cloning the Hard drive to replace with larger drive

Product Name:Pavilion Slimline s3760a
OS: Vista
Hi All,
I'm Turina, just joined the forum think I'm posting in the right place but let me know if I'm not please.
So we've had our computer for several years, the hard drive is in the red so am swapping it out before it dies of old age, for a WD 1TB Hard drive.
I am going to use a Sata-usb adapter and the Acronis True Image WD Edition Software to clone the installed hard drive.
It is only used at home, and we are purchasing another one for gaming, so this is just the usual photos, music, documents computer, some website/ftp type stuff, but nothing too consuming.
I don't think I have the original cd that came with the computer, so I don't have a cd of the OS.
Have already backed up the computer several times so should I return to factory setting prior to changing the hard drive? No important stuff on there that I can't retrieve.
Questions are:
The current drive is partitioned, the C: and the D: which is the Factory Image. I want to know if I can clone the factory image separately to the C drive onto different drives. ie the factory image onto one drive and the rest onto another drive. I actually am not sure what a factory image is but after reading about it I asume it is the information used to restore your computer back to factory settings??
If I can't clone separately, when I clone the drive will the computer then be able to recognise the extra 1TB or will it still just recognise the current drives memory of 320GB. I know you can enlarge partitions etc. no idea how or even if I need to do this??
And would a separate SSD or even hard drive for the OS be over kill? I don't actually think I can put the os on a separate drive as I don't have the cd, and don't know if I can do it with the cloning software. But thought I would ask anyway.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time
Turina
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Your correct, the D is a protected image used to create a factory Recovery. It's less than 15GB.
A prepped/formatted 1TB drive creates about 931GB of useable space.
The clone process will create about 916GB for C. The remaining will be the D.
Hope that helps.
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