HDD to SSD move difficulties

[pireninjacolass]

Hi.
I recently installed a samsung 840 256gb ssd, but I can't seem to clone my smaller windows drive to it and boot.
I cloned the drive, unplugged the hdd, put in the windows repair disk and tried to run the system repair tool. However, just after I picked language and keyboard settings the disk told me that there was an incorrect version of windows, even though it was 7 64 bit in both cases.

In addition to this I've heard that direct cloning from hdds to ssds is a bad idea, and that I am much better off just reinstalling windows. However, I do like my current windows install, and don't really want to have to re-install the my programs. Do you know anyway to make moving from one windows install to another less painful?

 

[casper1973]

Chances are you have Service Pack 1 installed but your installation DVD doesn't include SP1. However, if you clone the drive correctly there shouldn't be any reason to run system repair. It should just work.

Are you using the included Samsung Magician software?

 

[pireninjacolass]

I've installed magician, but they issue is it won't boot from the ssd, with trying to getting me nowhere, even when I remove the hdd. As said running system repair doesn't help.