Paragon Migrate OS to SSD

Looks like you are in business. Use the link that Steve posted above.

The Paragon Migrate will work cloning to an SSD or a hard drive. It won't make ny difference to it. It will work well for what you want to do.

It will do it with no problem. From the Paragon Migrate description.

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 3.0

The easiest OS migration to new Solid State Drives!

Ready to upgrade to a new Solid State Drive (SSD)? Paragon’s Migrate OS to SSD is just what you need. Our handy intuitive wizard performs fast and safe Windows migrations to new storage devices (HDD or SSD) and even downsizes to smaller capacity drives, thanks to advanced new data exclusion capabilities. You can transfer a live system with no impact to your work, and have your partitions automatically aligned in the process if needed.

truckinguy said:

Thanks for the reply. To clarify this you think that once I get my SDD up and running I can clone it to a HDD and it be bootable and usable. What confuses me is there are changes made to migrate from HDD to SSD but wouldn't there be changes back to HDD as well?

Exactly what changes are you refering to?

Automatic defragging is OFF on SSD and ON on HDD by default (win7 does that). And SSD should be aligned properly to NTFS cluster boundaries. How a HDD is aligned is irrelevant, but a clean win7 install will align it to 1MB boundary which is fine for SSD as well.

A migration from SSD to HDD or vice versa is just to same as from HDD to other HDD. It can be done by backup/restore or by cloning. Be sure the backup/restore software or cloning software can shrink/relocate partitions partition... otherwise it won't fit on a smaller disk of course.

From: SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System

Settings after the OS transfer

Disk Defragmentation makes no sense on an SSD. For a laptop, go into Services, navigate to Disk Defragmenter, right click on it and go to Properties. Here you set the service to Disabled.
For a desktop, you may want to disable defrag in the Disk Defragmenter and only for the SSD so that the remaining HDDs can still be defragmented.=> automatic defragging SSD is disabled by default. No extra actions needed

Note: As long as Defrag Service is turned off, you cannot shrink any partition. The partition shrink process requires the Defrag service. If you need to shrink a partition later, turn the Defragmentation Service temporarily on.

Hibernation File – most of us do not use Hibernation, but Sleep instead. But, the hiberfile takes precious space on your SSD – to the same tune as the size as your RAM. To get rid of it, run the following command in elevated Command Prompt: powercfg –h off. If you ever want it back, it is powercfg – h on.=>you decide yourself if you want the hibernation option. Totally unrelated to SDD (unless you need extra space on SSD)

Superfetch – many “experts” suggest to turn Superfetch off. I think that is not appropriate. Fetching a program or data from RAM is still a lot faster than fetching it from a disk – even from an SSD.=>use superfetch!

There are no other settings that are necessary. On the SSD forums you will find a lot of tweaks. I recommend you stay away from them.=>good advice
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All those settings are saved in backup/clone.

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?