If you're upgrading from an HDD to an SSD, make the most of the extra speed it offers by setting the SSD as your boot drive.

To clone my SSD, I used MiniTool Partition Wizard. While an OS clone is listed among the app's paid features, I didn't encounter any prompt to upgrade when I used the free version ...

A disk cloning tool is built into this disk management ... ️Advanced Features Available: Support migrating OS only, SSD management, etc. ️Interface: Friendly to all-level users.

Today, there is a lot of cloning from a hard drive to a solid state drive (SSD) because the hard drive is many years old or it is time to upgrade storage capacity. SSDs are the modern technology.