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I'm getting a crucial m4 64gb ssd and I want to clone my current drive instead of reinstalling everything. Can someone recomend free software & a few pointer on how to do it.

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kev
 
Personally I'd recommend doing a fresh install, but if you really don't want to then I found this free disk backup and clone software the other day. Its very simple to use and completely free for home and small office use.

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/

After you've migrated from your old HDD to your SSD there are a whole lot of tweaks you can do, and some of which you will need to do to make it work properly. I assume you're running windows 7? And also do you know what mode your SATA controllers are in right now? Either IDE or AHCI?
 
I'd definately do a fresh install if you can - for one your probably find that windows is installed in some IDE mode on the old HDD which requires a quick regfix to swap it to AHCI for your SSD.

There's plenty of good pieces of backup software on download.cnet.com/windows/backup-software/ if not.
 
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