Sorry, to re-post after marking "solved", but another consideration has come up.
Since I have moved my default docs, pictures, music, etc. to a new drive, my research says that if I bootup without that drive installed (say since I have replaced it with the new drive), windows will cause issues.
So I am now looking at doing a bare metal restore of the D drive. So image it from within the windows interface, shut down, unplug old drive D, plug in new drive D, bootup with SSR2013 boot disc and go through the "recovering a computer" process. Choose my standalone drive D image as the file and then choose "drive D" as that will be the only one listed.
Reading through the manual, it looks like it will also give me an option to browse to a network drive, and also pick the drive (i.e., does not just assume you want to restore C or C AND another drive), and then pick the target location.
Bootup after the restore and windows won't even know anything changed.... Maybe run a chkdsk after the restore.
I see in table 15-5 that it even has the resize the new drive option. So, does this sound like a valid plan?
Thanks again,
BJB