Updating HD to a SSD and keep old drive for back up?

roellerc

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Updating to SSD, and would like to keep old drive as a back up, what are the best steps. Tried updating from W7 to W10, system crashed couldn't recover, current HD was backed up onto external HD. Will do a fresh install of W7.
My system i7 950, Asus p6t deluxe MOB, EVGA 590 GPU.