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Help With Back and When Installing SSD

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I just bought an SSD for my OS and a program or two. In the past, during OS re-installations, I wouldn't really care about backing up anything aside from music and photos. I would basically just wipe everything and go about re-installing programs little by little.

This time around, I have more programs than usual and don't really care to re-install everything after installing the OS to the SSD. On top of that, it may be hard finding certain things to re-download. Just some information, only the OS will be on this SSD and a couple of programs. Everything else will remain on the HDD. It's a 180 gb ssd.

So I guess I have a couple questions in short.

1) What are my options as far as installing the OS on this SSD while keeping all my programs?

2) I have heard that it is good to completely wipe your HDD every once in a while for performance reasons? Correct?

3) Would the following be my best option? Back up all of my computer (aside form my OS), do an HDD reformat, install the OS to the SSD, and finally transfer the back up onto my hard drive. Any major downside to doing this versus doing a clean wipe and just re-installing all the programs from scratch?

4) Anything specific I should avoid backing up?
 
What are my options as far as installing the OS on this SSD while keeping all my programs?
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Clone your current HDD / os with a program like CloneZilla to the SSD.

I have heard that it is good to completely wipe your HDD every once in a while for performance reasons? Correct?
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This helps get rid of the clutter / unwanted software running or left behind.. However if you started clean you would have to install your applications which you said you did not want to do.
 
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And what about getting rid of the current OS including all OS related files on HDD after the OS clone to the SSD?
 
You could format the drive if you do not want to keep the hard drive as a backup of your previous system. In that case you may still want to hold off formatting the hard disk anyways just to be sure the system is working correctly with the SSD.
 
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