How to transfer everything from HDD to SDD?

tenderous

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Hello, I just bought a Seagate 480GB to replace my old 500GB HDD. I'm trying to copy everything on my HDD onto my SSD. Any idea how to do this? Thanks.
 
Solution
There are various migration tools. CloneZilla, Macrium, DriveimageXML and others.

But I always recommend a clean install in a new SSD.
Unfortunately you cannot just copy files from a hard disk drive to a solid state drive. It is a bit more complicated. You would have to use one of the data migration applications. Cloning software usually works reasonably well; however, sometimes problems develop. That is one of several reasons why a fresh clean install is the preferred method.