How to transfer everything from HDD to SDD?

[tenderous]

Hello, I just bought a Seagate 480GB to replace my old 500GB HDD. I'm trying to copy everything on my HDD onto my SSD. Any idea how to do this? Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

There are various migration tools. CloneZilla, Macrium, DriveimageXML and others.

But I always recommend a clean install in a new SSD.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Unfortunately you cannot just copy files from a hard disk drive to a solid state drive. It is a bit more complicated. You would have to use one of the data migration applications. Cloning software usually works reasonably well; however, sometimes problems develop. That is one of several reasons why a fresh clean install is the preferred method.