Upgrading from a hard drive to an SSD

[Matt Hiep-Vo]

Approximate Purchase Date: 2-3 weeks
Budget Range: 170$
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming; Light Video-Editing; Home Theater PC
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: Hard drive to an SSD (Using a Raidmax 535W PSU)
Do you need to buy OS: No
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1 1680x1050; 2 1920x1080
Why Are You Upgrading: Want to benefit from an SSD

I'm looking at purchasing an SSD to upgrade my 500GB Seagate hard drive. The only thing I really need help with is how to copy over the bootdrive (500GB drive) to the SSD (256GB) so i can use that as a boot drive. I'm gonna be using my hardrive as a secondary storage drive.

 

[IDontUnderstand]

Samsung 840 Evo 250GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147248

It comes with Data Migration software, but it's best if you can keep the stuff that you want to migrate from your HDD to SSD under 150 GB so it doesn't get close to overflow.
or you can take out the HDD, install a fresh copy of Windows using the same license code (it'll still work) > connect the HDD after your done installing > move the data.