Paragon Migrate OS to SSD

Right now I clone with Seagates free ultility made by Acronis. I clone the whole disk. In past crashes or corruptions I just took the cloned disk and installed it as the primary and away I went except for any changes made since I cloned. This is were selective back ups scheduled for certain days might shine for me. I should try to do that instead of cloneing. It takes a long time to clone. I got about 120 gb on my primary and it took almost 3 hours today.
My Dell media bay is used for storage now with a Hdd . I have to swap it with another HDD Caddy to do my back up for cloning every time. No big deal. Also I use an E sata external 2.5 HDD in an encloser to back up the storage. Maybe there is a simpler method to do my storage /primary backups.
I was thinking of buying a 256gb SSD. I have about 120 gb now and clone that to a 750gb HDD.
On a side note my primary is 750 MomentusXT Hybrid. Going SSD on the primary and using the 750 Hybrid might be better then what I have now. Alot of the files for the programs I use is on the storage drive.

Kaktussoft said:

As I wrote in previous post... there are no really neccesary changes to do.... except the alignment (is for speed).
With what software do you clone? And do you clone the whole disk, or just partition clones?

would I still need "paragon os to ssd" to get my operating system,applications,etc. to my new ssd. Then use the imageing with free macrium?

Kaktussoft said:

truckinguy said:

would I still need "paragon os to ssd" to get my operating system,applications,etc. to my new ssd. Then use the imageing with free macrium?

No you don't need paragon. But if you read my previous posts...you should already know.

Please post screenshot of disk management of your current disk layout.
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

What is the size of SSD?

My size would be 256 gb SSD. I only have 120 gb on my HDD primary as I store most data on the media bay drive in my Dell Latitude.

I read all of your posts but will read them again. As you think I'm missing something. You probably mean to image then restore the image to the new SSD instead of cloning my drive to the SSD. This is to get the SSD running I assume.

Kaktussoft said:

94MB partition isn't needed. Recovery partition not needed... it doesn't work anyway after relocation. But the problem is RECOVERY has the bootmanager on it and bootmenu.
So:

1. Clone (not backup) C (697GB) only to SSD. Leave it a primary partition. It doesn't fit so will be shrunk automatically by macrium. Make it ACTIVE and align to 1MB
2. Detach original HDD from system now!
3. Do a startup repair 3 times from win7 install DVD (or win7 system repair CD) to recreate bootmanager and boot menu. Startup Repair

Partition Alignment make partition type PRIMARY ACTIVE. Set alignment as shown on that website.

Do you have a system repair cd/dvd? System Repair Disc - Create

No repair disc yet. I will make one. I need to set ACHI in both windows and the bios?