Cloning HDD to SSD (Samsung 840 EVO)

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Hey guys, today I got my new Samsung 840 EVO. I want to clone my OS and a few games over to my SSD (I'm aware that you have to clone everything), I just have a few questions to ask. If I clone everything over, can I just delete everything I don't need from my SSD (I'm not too educated with SSDs, I just don't want to ruin it)? And when I clone everything over and install my SSD, will having two operating systems mess up my computer?

And this question relates to the last question, how can I safely uninstall my OS?

Thank you!
 
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As you suspect, a clone is a clone is a clone. If you clone the contents of your source drive over to your new SSD *all* the data on the source disk will reside on the new disk. If there's any data on the new drive that you don't want, simply delete or uninstall it. (But see below). Don't be concerned about any fragmentation on your new SSD causing adverse effects on that drive because you've deleted/uninstalled data from the drive. The new disk will perform just fine.

You can, should you desire, have OS on both of your drives without any problems arising from that configuration. Obviously you'll be booting to one or the other drives so the drive that's not booted to will simply be a secondary drive in your system. Presumably I would guess that you would want to uninstall the OS on the old (HDD?) disk since I can't imagine it will be of any use to you after the OS is installed on the new SSD. Probably the easiest way to accomplish this is to simply format the old disk while it's connected as a secondary drive (after you've successfully cloned the old disk to the SSD and you've verified that the new disk is bootable & completely functional). Of course if there's any data that you would want to reside on the old disk just copy it over from the cloned SSD after you've formatted the old disk.
 
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Frankly, it's an absurdity to conclude that a "problem" exists with disk-cloning because if there are "problems" with the source disk those problems will now reside with the destination disk as a result of the disk-cloning operation. It goes (nearly) without saying that if you clone garbage, garbage is what you'll get. Obviously it's incumbent upon the user to determine that the disk he/she is cloning (the "source" disk) boots without incident and is totally functional; that the source disk is free of malware and/or file corruption. Is that not obvious? There's no magic involved here.
 
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And on the flip side, you know that, if your operating system, drivers, settings, apps, and links are operating properly, they should continue to do so after a clone. I have never found installing an operating system and a stack of apps from scratch to be a bed of roses in terms of getting the computer operate hassle-free.

For example, I can't imagine what a hassle it would be to do a fresh install of Windows 7 from my installation disks. It would be downloading Windows updates for weeks. Not to mention the aggravation of installing Adobe apps with their flaky unreliable activation schemes.
 
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