Migrating Windows 7 from HDD to SSD issues

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I have tried many things to transfer my OS to my SSD, I've tried using EaseUS Parition Manager, although it fails to transfer halfway through. Clonezilla wont boot from my USB, and many other pieces of software which just hasn't worked.

I've being using http://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/ as a guide to do all of this, and I have succeeded up to the cloning part. Could anyone suggest any software, or ideas as to why this is not working.
 
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1. The basic criteria for a successful disk-cloning operation is that your current boot drive AS IT IS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED boots & functions without any problems whatsoever, and...
2. The TOTAL data contents on your "source" disk are less than the disk-capacity of your intended "destination" disk.

We'll assume that in your situation the above criteria are met; if it is not, read no further.

Download the trial edition of the Casper disk-cloning program from https://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/trial/ and install the program on your source disk.

I'm assuming that your destination drive - the SSD - is connected to your system via a USB external enclosure or one of those SATA-to-USB adapter devices (that hopefully is a workable...
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Old Drive: 90gb

SSD: 120gb

I made sure that it would fit, I've backed up all my files onto an external hard drive as well.
 
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Just tried running Tuxboot with CloneZilla ISO on my USB, But as soon as I booted up a message appeared, something along the lines of "Please remove any devices" and continue. Which booted up Windows 7 from my harddrive.
 
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1: SATA PM: ST500DM002-1BD142 (476940MB)
2: InnostorInnostor (60948MB)

1 is my main drive which has Windows 7 on it.
2 is the USB with CloneZilla on it.

However, I manually selected the USB to boot up on the BIOS, which lead to it saying 'Remove any devices and continue"
 
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1. The basic criteria for a successful disk-cloning operation is that your current boot drive AS IT IS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED boots & functions without any problems whatsoever, and...
2. The TOTAL data contents on your "source" disk are less than the disk-capacity of your intended "destination" disk.

We'll assume that in your situation the above criteria are met; if it is not, read no further.

Download the trial edition of the Casper disk-cloning program from https://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/trial/ and install the program on your source disk.

I'm assuming that your destination drive - the SSD - is connected to your system via a USB external enclosure or one of those SATA-to-USB adapter devices (that hopefully is a workable device; too many of them are not in our experience.)

Clone the contents of your source disk to the destination disk. Because you will be using the trial edition of Casper the resulting partition containing the contents of your source disk will be the same size of your source disk, presumably 90 GB. Following the disk-cloning operation you can use Disk Management to extend the partition on the destination drive to encompass the full disk-space of that disk. (This partition-resizing restriction is not present in the commercial version of the Casper program.)

Disconnect the source drive from the system and boot to the newly-cloned disk. It's best to connect the new boot disk to the first SATA connector (port) on the motherboard, usually designated SATA 0 or SATA 1. Boot with only the newly-cloned drive connected in the system. It's a good idea to check the BIOS/UEFI during the boot and confirm that the cloned drive is first in boot priority order.

The Casper program is primarily designed as a comprehensive backup program to be used routinely & frequently to ensure PC users maintain up-to-date comprehensive backups of their systems. When used in this manner it's an extroardinarily speedy program in carrying out its disk-cloning operations.
 
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MajorXMidge

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Yes! I used Casper to copy it, it took like 2.5 hours but it eventually worked! Thanks so much for this!
 
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Good to hear you've resolved the problem.

It frequently happens that the FIRST time Casper is used to clone the contents of one drive to another it takes an inordinately long time to complete the disk-cloning operation. This generally occurs only with the initial disk-cloning operation. Thereafter - when Casper is routinely & frequently used with the same source & destination drives as a comprehensive backup program - the disk-cloning operation will complete in a very short time - perhaps take as little as two or three minutes depending upon the volume of cloned data.
 
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