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I think you meant Macrium ? or Did you mean Acronis ? :) Macrium is better I personally think....
IF you use WLM , you can save the whole WLM Folder to your External and just bring it back later....
You can also save a Copy of the "Desktop Folder" to you external Drive
While on the Clean install ...yes delete ALL existing Partitions 1st on the SSD , then click NEXT ( or new sometimes) and Windows will make all the new partitions as needed.