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Use Paragon's Migrate to SSD utility:<br />
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<a href="http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/" rel="ugc">http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/</a><br />
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Once you have finished that, you can use the old disk for data.<br />
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Of course knowing you have good backups is always good, but as backups should be done at least daily anyway, that is really an unnecessary thing to say.
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Use Paragon's Migrate to SSD utility:

http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/ [http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/]

Once you have finished that, you can use the old disk for data.

Of course knowing you have good backups is always good, but as backups should be done at least daily anyway, that is really an unnecessary thing to say.

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Excellent answers. &nbsp;Thanks a lot.<br />
capreol
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Excellent answers.  Thanks a lot.
capreol

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You're welcome. Happy to help. Good luck with the new SSD! Regards, Joe
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You're welcome. Happy to help. Good luck with the new SSD! Regards, Joe

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I want to clone my windows 7 ide hard drive to an SSD drive. &nbsp;What software do you recommend to do this job? &nbsp;Also, what happens to my original hard drive? &nbsp;Can it still be used? &nbsp;Any cautions that you would advise in doing this?<br />
Thanks,<br />
capreol
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I want to clone my windows 7 ide hard drive to an SSD drive.  What software do you recommend to do this job?  Also, what happens to my original hard drive?  Can it still be used?  Any cautions that you would advise in doing this?
Thanks,
capreol

how to clone my hard drive?

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