Question Move OS and registered installed programs from HD to SSD

[fontenele71]

Ok, so, I have read a couple of similar questions around, but I'm still not confident enough to do this process and I'm still not sure if what I want to do is possible. You see, I have a couple of important work software that I have registered in the past using borrowed keys from people that I dont even talk to anymore so it would be impossible to get them again and buying is not an option because it is really expensive. There are also other cracked software that I dont want to go through the trouble of finding online and installing again. My question is, does clonning works for keeping these softwares? How should I go about the clonning process? A step by step solution would be greatly aprecciated. I have a 1TB Hard Drive since late 2013 that I have never restored and I plan on buying a Kingston 480 GB SSD. I would also want to use the old HDD as storage. How would I go about that? Will I have to wipe it clean? If so, how?

Thanks, I know its kind of a lot.

 

[COLGeek]

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