Migrate os from hdd to ssd

sanderzz

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I have recently got a second hand ssd from a friend that I want to use as a boot drive but I haven't been able to use it because my operating system is still on my WD blue 1tb hard disk. Is there any way to migrate the operating system (windows 7 home premium 64bit) from the hard drive to the ssd without having to format my hard drive?
 
If your OS in the HDD is located on an individual partition and the size of this partition is not bigger than about 90% the SSD capacity, you can clone this partition and put the clone to the SSD.
Do some registry changes along with AHCI option in BIOS.
That should do the trick.

Fresh install is the best tho'.